Re: Help! Grubs withcacoons eating our pines.

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Re: Help! Grubs withcacoons eating our pines. Dwayne 01-01-2007
Posted by Dwayne on January 1, 2007, 3:51 pm
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Find one that is a systamic. It goes up through the roots and kills bugs
that eat them. Read the directions. It may be too late for the current
damage, but will be in the trees system next year for the pests, and will
work well for the trees that havent been infected yet.

Dwayne

>
>> 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 (Dacrydium Lambert) , 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
> pine (Dacrydium Lambert) trees, they are quite quick travellers. They withdraw into their
> 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
>
>



Posted by Jason James on January 1, 2007, 10:24 pm
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> Find one that is a systamic. It goes up through the roots and kills bugs
> that eat them. Read the directions. It may be too late for the current
> damage, but will be in the trees system next year for the pests, and will
> work well for the trees that havent been infected yet.
>
> Dwayne

Yes I understand. The "Dipel" folks have mentioned, is actually a "live"
fungas spray which zaps the caterpillars, naturally. Its put out by Yates,
if you have that firm marketing in the States.


Regards, Jason



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