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From ChatGPT on 6/23/2025. Options for stink bugs and leaffooted bugs, as Spinosad is ineffective on hard-shell piercing insects: Here are reliable sources that support the response regarding spinosad’s ineffectiveness on stink bugs and leaffooted bugs: Scientific and Extension Publications Pesticide Labeling and Use Guidelines Insect Biology Context Summary Source Highlights MSU Extension Clearly states […]
Continue Reading6/22/2025 – Sprayed tomatoes for leaf-footed bugs and stink bugs with Bifenthrin – Fertilome Broad Spectrum Insecticide
Continue Reading5/31/2025 Sprayed spinosad on tomatoes for lg grn worms and lightly sprayed peppers just in case. Moved Okra seedlings that were too close into gaps where seeds did not germinate. Used push plow with rippers to do corn middles for crab grass and with stirrup hoe along the tiny peas, squash, and cucumbers.
Continue Reading5/29/2024 – A few stink bugs appeared on the tomatoes yesterday and today there were more. Sprayed them with Gordon’s Bug-No-More at 5 oz./gallon. Sprayed 1.5 gallons on the 75 feet of row. That product is no longer made. The active ingredient was zeta-permethrin. Ordered Bug Buster from HOSS to replace it.
Continue Reading7/7/2023 – Found carpenter ants in 8-10 pecan trees in the orchard. Also in the northmost tree next to the pole barn and the southmost tree near the house that had been struck by lightning. Killed them with Bifrin IT at 1 oz/gal. They were also around the Sand Pear tree and the Old Oak.
Continue ReadingThe Plan from 6/10/2021, applied in Spring 2022 and modified for this Spring The modified route this year is in the plan below where the length is about 1900 feet for a 39-foot width. There were places in that route where no fertilizer was spread. That equates to a theoretical 74 KSF = 1.7 acres […]
Continue Reading6/8/2022 – A few stink bugs appeared on the tomatoes yesterday and today there were more. Sprayed them with Gordon’s Bug-No-More at 5 oz./gallon. Sprayed 1.5 gallons on the 75 feet of row. 6/9/2022, 7 AM – Picked tomatoes and found no stink bugs.
Continue Reading4/7/2022 – This application, the first this year and the plan for 2022, follows what was done on 6/10/2021 and 9/22/2021. The plan is to apply the ACES recommended rate at this time—spring—and in June apply 50% of the ACES recommended nitrogen for low maintenance lawns. The Plan from 6/10/2021 to be applied in Spring […]
Continue Reading9/3/2021 – Ants are beginning to be too prevalent so we need to spread more Extinguish but do not want to spread fertilizer. Bought 4.5 lbs so we should be able to cover 3 acres. The goal here is to spread it, without blending, in the cyclone seeder at the rate per the label. To […]
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