RE: organic sweet corn pest management

Walker Bennett (WBennett@caldwellspartin.com)
Wed, 27 Oct 1999 10:35:54 -0400

This past season I imported trichogramma (sp?) wasps and planted
dill, sweet basil, and several other flowering herbs around my sweet corn
field. The incidence of damage from borers was less than 20% that of
previous years.

Walker Bennett
wbennett@caldwellspartin.com <mailto:wbennett@caldwellspartin.com>
wabennett@gw.total-web.net <mailto:wabennett@gw.total-web.net>
w_bennett@msn.com <mailto:w_bennett@msn.com>

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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Warren [mailto:plwarren@vt.edu]
Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 9:21 AM
To: sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu
Subject: organic sweet corn pest management

Hello All,

I am looking for some ideas for managing pests of sweet corn in Virginia in
an organic way. Any information will be appreciated. Thanks for your time.

Peter L. Warren
Extension Agent, Integrated Pest Management
Virginia Cooperative Extension
P.O. Box 30, Orange, VA 22960
phone: (540)672-1361 fax: (540)672-0234
email: plwarren@vt.edu web: http://www.ext.vt.edu/offices/orange

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