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Manchester,N.H.

I am going to grow my vegetable garden next to my pumpkin patch this year. I plan on using warrior t in my patch and I know it will kill everything including bees, by killing the bees will that have an affect on my regular garden ?

2/22/2005 9:46:55 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Spray only in the early evening as the sun is setting. The bees won't be killed & the plants won't be burned.

If the bees were killed, then yes, the lack of bees would be detrimental to the fruit sets of your other vegetables.

2/22/2005 11:17:23 PM

Montoursville, PA

I am still learning by listening and observing. It was my thought that the better insecticides have fourteen to twenty days non selective residule effect as contact sprays. I think the bees and other beneficials will be killed in direct relationship, to their contact, with the chemical while the applied chemical is effective.

The most recent advisements I have read that make sense is, to spray, in the early morning, to avoid the miserable increase ,in the conditions, that bring, on the milldews so difficult, to deal with, the last two years. I don't see to much difference when or how the bees are contacted due ,to the residule effect. Either way beneficials will be, in contact with the applied chemical.

No flowers no attraction, for the most part. This makes more energy, for the plant and developing fruit too.

Either way pulling off the flowers no longer needed would reduce the attraction ,to bees and other beneficials attracted, to the flowers. Burn them or put them in a closed container or they will attract where ever they are tossed.

3/22/2005 11:58:42 AM

Long Island,New York

I rarely see a pollination bee hang out on a leaf or crawl up a stem....they just fly from flower to flower in my patch, never landing on a sprayed part of the plant-always on the inside of the flowers....

3/22/2005 4:54:55 PM