[Growwine] worm damage

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   If cutworms are the problem? If you burn alot of wood, just spread
them at the bottum of the plants and they will stay clear of them. 

   Duke DeFaria

   Defaria Vineyards

   Quoting Canada Vintage :

	These are cutworms. Same problem in the tobacco, tomatoe, and
eggplant industries. Not much you will be able to do about it. 
PEsticides don't work well on these worms since they are nocturnal
and stay underground most of the day.  If you do use pesticide,
you need to apply at night, when worms are mobile. 
Anthony Carone (Zone 4b-5a)
Canada Vintage - Carone Vineyards, a division of Carone Enterprises

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From: markhart at hardygrapes.com
To: growwine at littlefatwino.com
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:33:24 -0500
Subject: Re: [Growwine] worm damage

Larry,
Curiosity has got the best of me.  I'm stumped.  I can
think a catapillar that damages grape foliage in the pre-bloom to
bloom stages that looks like that.  My guess is it is a
generalist pest, and not grape-specific.  Any chance you could
get a photograph before you do them in?
Another 'soft' (sensu OMRI) product you might consider is a neem-oil
based product.  I don't know about registration in Canada. 
 Last I knew that was still in the pending stage for use on
grapes. 
Mark Hart

On Jun 11, 2008, at 8:57 PM, Larry Paterson wrote:
We are having a problem with some small (about 1 cm long) black worms
on the leaves.  In some cases they have almost defoliated entire
vines. What is available to fight these (safely) without special
access to chemicals? Lardy Larry Paterson, lfw, rd, adcc
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