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Choctaw, OK

I heard something very interesting today. I heard before you plant your seedlings....take seven dust and spread it around your patch and till it under 6-7 inches and it is supposed to helps keep the cucumber beetles down. I was wondering if anyone has tried this and if it worked?

Casey

3/22/2001 8:49:52 PM

Buffalo, Minnesota

This is very intresting to me, i wonder if this would also work for the damn squash vine borrers, as i know allot of these got in my soil last fall, and also squash bugs? you could really have something here, sounds like it would take allot of seven prabably about 8 containers to get good patch coverage though. ~Wildbill

3/23/2001 1:19:46 AM

Midway City, California

HI I found White Grubs (June Bugs) When I was digging my soil for testings. I Took a bug sample to the Nursery and they suggested I use "Sevin 5 Granuales" I spread it on The ground and then watered it in. Will be tilling in a few days and hope to find only dead bugs. Water

3/23/2001 12:12:34 PM

Los Alamos NM

Would this method of adding pesticide kill good bugs too? Does sevin kill worms?

3/23/2001 6:52:20 PM

Midway City, California

The Sevin Lables and instruction does not say anything about worms. I will know in a couple of day.s, I Usually find quite a few Water = John

3/23/2001 9:05:28 PM

Choctaw, OK

good questoin ebby....i never thought of that....i like them worms....if it kills them i would rather put up with the beetles....anyone know if it does?

Casey

3/24/2001 12:05:06 PM

Rush, NY

At a seminar a year ago a grower told me He applied GRUBEX to his soil before planting to kill insects and grubs. Its active ingredient is 0.2% Imidaclopred, which is also the active ingredient in Admire that I used to treat seeds and spray my plants with last year. I bought a 14.35 pound bag of GRUBEX and spred 2 pounds in about a 30 foot diameter circle for each plant. Imidaclopred is a systemic insecticide and I used it thinking it may kill larva that feed on the pumpkin roots. I don't know if it killed worms. I do know Diazinon kills worms. I mix it in the soil under the cold frame that I germinate seeds in to kill seed maggots. I find dead night crawlers. In some States GRUBEX has a different active ingredient.

3/24/2001 7:08:38 PM

walton n.y.

i know that 7 kills ladybugs as i had a potato bug problem last year not only did it kill the potato bugs but found ladybugs and a few daddylongleggs dead as well

3/25/2001 5:27:28 PM