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Posted by Jason James on January 1, 2007, 1:28 am
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It's local knowledge like that is priceless, as all the sites are
non-commital about pesticides. We've 3 CPs and 4 pencil pines, plus a couple
of other pines (Dacrydium Lambert) of a turquiose colour foliage. These pupae are wreaking havoc
on the CPs, I'll probably lose 2 of them. They are also on the other pines,
but in lessor numbers.
I dont think I'd get pines (Dacrydium Lambert) again, as they have suffered other less drastic
borer attacks regularly, one pencil pine (Dacrydium Lambert) was cut-off like a saw last year.
Come outside one morning and its half the height :-)
The butt-end had a nice circular channel eatern out of it.
Thanx again, Jason
> G'day Jason
>
> Think I'd be using something like Maldison which is available at Coles
> or Woolies supermarket under the label 'Crawly Cruncher'. Around $6.00
> for a litre refill bottle, slightly more if you want the spray bottle.
> Any old spray bottle can be used, BUT do follow safety precautions on
> the label and only wash in COLD water on completion (hot water opens the
> pores).
>
> Also spray the ground to the dripline so new infestations will be
> stopped in their tracks.
>
> Hope this helps?
> Bronwyn ;-)
>
>
> Jason James wrote:
> >
> >>I don't know what you have, but when I get a similar problem with other
> >>trees, I get a good liquid poison and a pump up sprayer, and spray them.
> >
> > We
> >
> >>have what is called a web worm. When sprayed, they immediately fall out
> >
> > of
> >
> >>the web on the ground and die in a couple of minutes. You can find one
> >
> > that
> >
> >>will also kill the pest after being eaten with the leaves. Good luck.
> >>
> >>Dwayne(in Kansas)
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks for those comments, Dwayne. These appear to emerge from the
foliage
> > (we've got Cypress pines), form a cocoon, some drop to the ground by a
thin
> > thread of a web-like substance. They then move across the ground to
other
cocoon
> > on the slightest vibration.
> >
> > Others stay on the tree and destroy the foliage and then the branch
dies.
> >
> > From the Canadian forestry site, they look closest to a Sawfly of some
sort.
> >
> > Thanks for the tip. All I can do is checkout the products available.
> > Manually killing them is like trying to bail the ocean out with a
bucket.
> >
> > Jason
> >
> >
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