[Arid_gardener] Re: Fw: Pomegranates and leaf-footed bugs

[Olin Miller]

Sounds like what you're are doing now is about the best you can do.  It's
pretty difficult, perhaps impossible, to find an insecticide registered for
use on pomegranates.  The U of A recommendation at
http://cals.arizona.edu/maricopa/garden/html/t-tips/bugs/leaf-ft.htm
is to " ... Destroy any bugs that are found.  Immature fruits may be
protected by covering with paper bags."

Olin Miller, Master Gardener Volunteer
U of A Cooperative Extension, Maricopa County AZ
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---- Original Message ----- From: "Derek Davis" <derekdavis at ieee.org>
To: <derGartenArzt at worldnet.att.net>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 9:05 PM

Greetings Olin,
> Found your address in a posting on Avid Gardner.  We have a mature
> Wonderful
Pomegranate that suffers every year from leaf-footed bugs.  I've been going
out every night with a squirt bottle of diluted Peppermint Castile soap and
a flashlight.  A short squirt knocks them down and kills them - a lot easier
than trying to grab them, especially when they are high up.  Plus they don't
generate that foul odor.
> But it's very labor-intensive and I wonder whether it really does any
> good.
Seems like what they don't destroy, the roof rats get. :-(
>We also are using glassine bags to try to protect some of the fruit - they
seem to weather better than just regular paper.
> If you've any suggestions, we would love to hear them.
>Uebrigens, sind Sie vielleicht Deutsch?

Nein.  Amerikanisch!