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Old 01-08-2006, 07:09 PM   #1
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Dormant oil will kill some but not all. Too many. They hide under the bark. Don't spray if the temp. is to go under 32 or you can hurt tree. Basicly smothers them. The problem with these moths and gypsy moths is that they crawl up the tree and then go airborne via silken threads. Thus the name gypsy moth. winter moths do the same so if you spray and your neighbors don't and the wind blows from his yard to yours you guessed it. Problem with spraying chemicals you need to cover the whole tree, kind of hard on a 70 ft. tree. Between them and the gypsy moths last year they ate all my apple trees and most of my blueberries. I have a friend in Wareham who did not get a single blueberry from 200 plus bushes. Going to suck for sure.

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Old 01-08-2006, 08:42 PM   #2
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I have told all to now leave the outside light off!! They attract the darn things like crazy!! Then we open the door to go out or come in and bring them in with us!!

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Old 01-08-2006, 08:52 PM   #3
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Post pauls right

when the moths crawl up under the bark real tight and you spray very little of the oil your trying to smother them with reaches it's intended target making it basically a waste of time...not to mention the difficulty in reaching very tall trees where you'd need up to 125 to 200 psi pressure to get that high. So the solution is going to have to come from the biologists engineering an intervention of some sort like how they released insects into the environment that couldnt reproduce.

Its going to have to take a much different approach like the introduction of a species of bird that will eat them or some new kind of light with a new bugg zapper built into it.... because chemicals even something benign like dormant oil sprays still end up back in the environment. when i raise bees commercially i will have all the hives indoors and they will be of my own hexagon design instead of the standard frames and i'll make them my way.

i remember spraying around this million dollar home with chlordane before it was made illegal and it killed all the damn ants for several weeks and i thought...i win.... and then Son Of a Beotch they were back and i looked and looked and couldnt figure out how they did this.....then i noticed this one oak tree had a wire running from the house to the oak which was 50 feet away and they had changed tactics avoiding the ground completely and came down that wire.
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Old 01-08-2006, 08:59 PM   #4
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Bugs will rule the world someday.

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Old 01-08-2006, 09:12 PM   #5
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They rule the world now...

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
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yes this is quite true PM

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Bugs will rule the world someday.
except they will be nano bot bugs that have self replicated after they wrote their own operating system and circumvented all the safety
protocols established by the asimov law.
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