Everything is bigger in Texas...??

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   I'd ask how you know (full of green goo)...but I assume it was a very messy death from the sky. LOL

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Karl_db Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 29255	Quote Reply Topic: Everything is bigger in Texas...?? Posted: 24 Jul 2010 at 4:01pm
	I'd ask how you know (full of green goo)...but I assume it was a very messy death from the sky. LOL

Bob Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Location: Piney woods Tex Posts: 11091	Quote Reply Posted: 24 Jul 2010 at 4:44pm
	I sympathize. I've been fighting those critters all my life ... well, it feels that long anyway. Did you find where they were coming from? You can kill those on the surface and make 'em change their location with most any kind of insecticide but the only thing that kind of works with them and that's AMDRO Ant Block. Kind of expensive at approx. $15 to $17 depending on where you get it (Wal-lMart has it .... sometimes). And it is not immediate. It takes awhile and maybe several applications. They are night feeders when it's hot.

Don Watkins Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Admin Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 22189	Quote Reply Posted: 24 Jul 2010 at 5:07pm
	It was a very messy death from above... I have a can of Seven (?), that power stuff that they took off the market a while back that is very, very good and I expect it would work but I don't use it unless all other efforts fail....I'm trying to save it, it's the last good insecticide that I have left. No clue where they came from but I think they're all in goo heaven.

Bob Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Location: Piney woods Tex Posts: 11091	Quote Reply Posted: 24 Jul 2010 at 5:35pm
	They'll be back. If they are the Texas Leaf Cutters and we speak of the same critter they cut the leaves and take them back to their nests where others tend a fungus farm. They won't take regular bait but will take that Ant Block back with them. I imagine what you see is just a fraction of what's really there. Just judging from experiences here.

Karl_db Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 29255	Quote Reply Posted: 24 Jul 2010 at 7:27pm
	You mean this sevin?

Bob Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Location: Piney woods Tex Posts: 11091	Quote Reply Posted: 24 Jul 2010 at 7:45pm
	Don might have misspoken. Sevin is still available and plentiful. Bet you could buy a 50# bag if you were so inclined. Liquid concentrate, dust, wettable powder, etc., etc..

Randy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 22 Mar 2008 Location: USA, Georgia Posts: 15248	Quote Reply Posted: 24 Jul 2010 at 7:47pm
	Used to use it on my tomato plants back when we had a place for a garden.

Karl_db Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 29255	Quote Reply Posted: 24 Jul 2010 at 9:42pm
	HeeHee "Misspoken". (Sorry...it just tickled my funny bone.)

Karl_db Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 29255	Quote Reply Posted: 24 Jul 2010 at 9:43pm
	From your pic, it looks like you could have a huge garden?

Randy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 22 Mar 2008 Location: USA, Georgia Posts: 15248	Quote Reply Posted: 24 Jul 2010 at 10:22pm
	Who us? I wish. We have an enormous amount of shade, not that I'm complaining. The one spot we have a good amount of sun is on a fairly steep hill.

Karl_db Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 29255	Quote Reply Posted: 25 Jul 2010 at 5:12am
	Ah....terrace farming...LOL

Don Watkins Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Admin Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 22189	Quote Reply Posted: 25 Jul 2010 at 6:14am
	I thought they'd taken Sevin off the market? Guess I was thinking of malathion but I see it hasn't been taken off the market either so all things normal; I don't know what I was thinking. Ah, back to a lair? None yesterday but I'll look again today.

Randy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 22 Mar 2008 Location: USA, Georgia Posts: 15248	Quote Reply Posted: 25 Jul 2010 at 7:36am
	Don - I was with you on lamenting the loss. Maybe it was the standard pest control stuff you were thinking of, like chlordane?

Don Watkins Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Admin Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 22189	Quote Reply Posted: 25 Jul 2010 at 8:13am
	Maybe, can't figure how I missed it so badly. Oh well, at least I have a stockpile just in case. Fact is I rarely use it but I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

Karl_db Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 29255	Quote Reply Posted: 25 Jul 2010 at 8:45am
	Same here. What I have this year...is leftover from last year. With the wet weather this year, I figured it would be bug city...especially for the green beans. But so far...looking fine and dandy and bug free; odd.

Randy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 22 Mar 2008 Location: USA, Georgia Posts: 15248	Quote Reply Posted: 25 Jul 2010 at 9:04am
	Maybe winter weather did a number on the bugs?

Karl_db Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 29255	Quote Reply Posted: 25 Jul 2010 at 9:17am
	Maybe. But it was such a wet spring...just grateful!

Bob Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Location: Piney woods Tex Posts: 11091	Quote Reply Posted: 25 Jul 2010 at 6:30pm
	The phases of gardening: Expectation - The time of seed catalogs and imagining what to plant and how it will be at harvest time Optimism - Having planted and everything looks perfect. Ahh, this is gonna be the year! Realism - The bugs and diseases find your garden and the battle begins Despair - The Coons harvest your corn and peaches the night before you plan to pick and the bugs and disease are winning the battle. Optimism 2 - Well, there's always next year and things will be better.

Karl_db Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 29255	Quote Reply Posted: 25 Jul 2010 at 8:53pm
	HeeHee Very good Bob. And very accurate also!

Randy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 22 Mar 2008 Location: USA, Georgia Posts: 15248	Quote Reply Posted: 25 Jul 2010 at 9:50pm
	Bravo! Well said, Bob, and so true!