Don't want to start a flame, but AACT is not an
'icide.' Don't get us in trouble with the EPA by suggesting it is......It works
because it helps add the beneficials needed to create and maintain healthy
foodwebs with all the benefits that come with that state of
nature...
APHIDS: IMHO Compost tea means healthier
plants that are not under stress. Plants under stress have higher incidents of
aphids.
As for direct application and results on aphids, if
you have a severe enough spray, it will knock them off the plants, but after a
year, I still have them in my greenhouse, though now they seem to predominately
hit the Orchids when in bloom. What self respecting Alaskan aphid
wouldn't......
TENT CATERPILLARS starved.....that is not
being killed directly by AACT, right? Starving tent caterpillars
means they wouldn't eat the leaves probably because there was something on
them they didn't like or that they eat once and it shuts down their digestive
system as in the action of bT. And maybe there was some bT strain or similar
acting in the tea mix.
SLUGS? Got me there. Perhaps the healthy
foodweb at the sprayed plants includes plenty of opelias and slug eating
microarthropods as well as slug killing nematodes.
In any case, AACT isn't an 'icide' any more
than mother nature, so be careful or we will have to register with the EPA
because of the wrong claims on behalf of AACT.
Cheers,
Jeff L
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