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| This is the kind of day it's been. Well, it started yesterday when it finally dawned on me that the Diabrotica population was really high this year. Being me, I hand picked and drowned a bunch and then came in to scour the Internet for "what abouts and how tos" and finally decided that making yellow sticky traps made sense.
Which brings us to today when I traipsed to two stores to buy: yellow paper cups, Tanglefoot and a package of 4' bamboo stakes. But, of course when I came home and went back to the Internet for better directions, I found multiple references to the fact that the bleeping traps are (duh) equal opportunity trappers. Good guys and bad guys all in the same mess of goo. Guess I can't do that.... So back to handpicking. But of course, I did still had to stop back online to determine that early morning is the best time for that....Sigh....Maybe tomorrow.... Okay, the rant part is over: Any suggestions for dealing with or tolerating the cucumber beetle which seem to inhabit a similar area as thrips in the range of hard to control botherations?? |
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| I have them too. I kill them when I see them but otherwise pretty much ignore them. They'll eventually disappear. They do chew holes in everything but the right now most of the roses look pretty small and tired from the heat anyway. And a lot of them have just stopped blooming waiting for it to cool off. |
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| So, Seil, they are more annoying than really problematic? That's good to know. Thanks. |
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- Posted by flaurabunda 6a, Central IL (My Page) on Sat, Jul 21, 12 at 14:09
| I get them pretty thick where I'm at and yeah; mostly annoying. They don't do near the damage that some of the other, more formidable pests do, but I agree that they are attracted to the same roses that thrips would frequent. I had posted previously that the biggest danger they pose to me, personally, is nostril entry. |
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