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| Author: | synaptoman [ Feb 18th, '08, 18:29 ] | |||
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Could someone please tell me how to get rid of these caterpillars that are eating my bean and tomato leaves. Also there is a small hole or two in the small tomatos. Could it be this critter as well? Obviously I need something that won't affect my Tilapia. Many Thanks
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| Author: | creative1 [ Feb 18th, '08, 18:35 ] |
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you have it now synaptoman... thumb and forefinger! Meditative is work good for the soul! |
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| Author: | monya [ Feb 18th, '08, 18:35 ] |
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do you get Yates products over there? If so try Dipel, or BT (dunno what it stands for) |
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| Author: | Jaymie [ Feb 18th, '08, 18:37 ] |
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Bacillus thuringensis |
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| Author: | monya [ Feb 18th, '08, 18:40 ] |
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thanks doc 
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| Author: | veggie boy [ Feb 18th, '08, 18:47 ] |
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Here we call those fellas lawn grubs (or at least I do  ). They don't stay in the lawn though. Generally make the trip into the beds etc at night.
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| Author: | timmy [ Feb 18th, '08, 18:58 ] |
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from my experience pretty much nothing is 100% going to keep them off your plants in AP. natural remidies lack the punch harsher chemicals provide. having said that, you can usually keep the crop loss down to something like 1 tomato in 5 with a grub bite in it, and maybe 1 in 10 that's spoiled. if you have kids train them to go grub hunting and feed them to the fish. dipel will work reasonibly well until it rains |
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| Author: | veggie boy [ Feb 18th, '08, 19:03 ] |
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I found Dipel to be extremely effective, cleaned the lot up. But as Timmy says - will get washed off in the rain, which incidentally is weather loved by the grubs  .
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| Author: | RupertofOZ [ Feb 18th, '08, 20:35 ] | ||
| Post subject: | Re: I need a weapon | ||
Synapto.... could well be tomato hornworm... see attached picture... http://backyardaquaponics.com/forum/vie ... 812#109812 and link in gnashs thread .... http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/dp_hfrr/extens ... rnworm.htm Dipel works a treat on these little bludgers 
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| Author: | synaptoman [ Feb 18th, '08, 20:52 ] |
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Thanks for everyones help. Yes, we do have Dipel in South Africa. I've sent the good wife to go and buy some and I'll test and report back, |
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| Author: | Jaymie [ Feb 19th, '08, 12:53 ] |
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and what is the bad wife doing? |
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| Author: | synaptoman [ Feb 19th, '08, 13:58 ] |
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Don't joke, this is South Africa, we are allowed to have up to 8 wives (1 legal and 7 traditional) unless you are a king (unlimited). Even our next president has just married his 6th wife this last weekend. The bad wife (ex) lives in Perth. |
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| Author: | Jaymie [ Feb 19th, '08, 14:57 ] |
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oh 
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| Author: | RupertofOZ [ Feb 19th, '08, 15:16 ] |
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Quote: The bad wife (ex) lives in Perth.
You mean that you're allowed to export them..... darn... noone told me about that one
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| Author: | earthbound [ Feb 19th, '08, 17:53 ] |
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Ooops, you mean she's a local here? 
I've got a pack of dipel there but I haven't got around to opening it yet, caterpillars have only been average this year and so I haven't bothered. |
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