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Posted by jthread on October 24, 2007, 9:45 pm
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> jthread wrote:
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>>>jthread wrote:
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>>>>I was looking at the live oak acorns (seed) that are falling in
>>>>abundance now. They all have little holes about 1/16". Is that normal or
>>>>am I infested with something?
>>>
>>>They are infested with a beetle larvae, cousins to the "weevils" you
>>>might find as a pantry pest now and then.
>>>
>>>Lar
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>> Should I do anything? or let nature take it's course?
>
> Just let'em go unless you are commercially growing the acorns... had a
> customer who called me last year with "giant maggots" crawling around the
> house. I get there and see what she has and ask if her grand kids have
> been out collecting acorns while visiting. Nope, they hadn't been there in
> a good while. About that time her poodle comes running in with a mouthful
> of acorns to play with and she later discovered the dog had several caches
> of the nuts about the house.
>
> http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/foresthealth/pubs/oakpests/p35.html
> http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/ythfacts/allyr/yf804.htm
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> Lar
Thanks
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