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RE: earwigs



In article <c=US%a=_%p=Cascadian_Farm._%l=POTATO-960611205543Z-2764@potato.cfarm.com>, woody@cfarm.com (DERYCKX, WOODY) says:
>  Although earwigs can be aggressive plant feeders under
>some situations, especially among seedling vegetables in garden settings
>and European earwig damage to veg crops, their business in tree crops
>may be more as predators of other insects, mites, eggs, etc than as
>plant feeding pests. 

Thanks. I have started this year catching earwigs in plastic pots with
straw for transplanting them into plants with insectproblems.
However at the moment I don't have any problems but as soon as there is
a plaque coming up I will collect the pots and hang them in the infected
plants.

Frits v/d Laan
Biologische boomkwekerij
(organic horticulture)
Gouda
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/F.vd.Laan/



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