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- From: dmiller@theory.lcs.mit.edu (Dick and Jill Miller)
- Subject: Re: Cutworms
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.151350.23390@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 15:13:50 GMT
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- >From: dipirro@star.dec.com (Steve DiPirro)
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- >Subject: Organic controls for cutworms?
- >
- >Last year, for the first time in many years of growing potatoes,
- >many were damaged by what I believe to be cutworms in the soil.
- >These 1/2-3/4", orange-ish, segmented, hard-shelled worms/larvae
- >with pinchers for mouths would burrow into my potatoes, do some
- >damage themselves and weaken the potato to allow moisture and rot
- >to set in. I had most of 60 plants worth of potatoes ruined.
- >
- >I can only use organic controls for such things. So I do not
- >want to use diazinon in the soil, although I've heard this works
- >for cutworms. If I'm not dealing with cutworms, then I'd like
- >to know that too. If I am, I'm interested in any organic controls
- >for these beasts in the soil. Thanks.
- >
- >Steve DiPirro dipirro@star.dec.com
-
- Doesn't sound like cutworms. My cutworms are grey and softbodied and more
- like caterpillars than grubs.
-
- --Jill
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