I have never had so many apples spoiled by grub-invasion as we have this year. The pears are fine.
Has anyone else noticed an increase in the problem?
Ours have gone into terminal decline since we started to use the pheromone traps... :)
Mine were truly dreadful last year. They're not quite ready yet but it looks like the parakeets are going to get whatever the grubs haven't :(
Big wasp problem here.
Quote from: Digeroo on August 26, 2009, 08:43:13
Big wasp problem here.
Here too, more about than the last few years, they've had a right feast on our Scrumptious :( but seem to have left the others for now ::)
Our biggest problem "insect" is woodlice which follow up an exploratory peck from the birds.. :)
Woodlice are eating my aubergines this year. Never had that before.
wasps, 2 wasp traps out of 6 now, all at least 3/4 full :-\
I've had really bad codling moth this year despite using a pheromone trap - am thinking of buying some caterpillar killer to try and prevent the same thing happening next year. In previous years the pheromone trap has worked, so I'm not sure if I bought a dud or the moth is much worse. Has anyone any experience of using the nemasys caterpiller killer? It's so disappointing to have virtually the whole apple tree harvest falling early and magotty.
These stories show that organic gardening is a lot of tosh!
I eat the grubs, they make no difference to the taste and I get a bit of protein.
http://www.allaboutallotments.com/index.html
Saw an item on TV couple of days ago where they recommended putting up a brown inflated paper bag, which the wasps see as another nest and so go away. If it works it is not very fast. No sign of mass exodus!
Lots of our fruit has fallen prey to the Greater hooded morons! And its against the law to set traps for them. Wonder if the right kind of pheromone would deter them! ???
Hi Florence... and welcome to A4A...
give the tree another looking over... it's rare for the whole crop to be infected.. unless it is a very small tree say a dozen apples, but the infected ones ripen first so it feels like it and you ignore the "clean" hundred behind the mankey ones.. they can still be eaten/cooked with.. :)