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Insects taking over the world?!
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<blockquote data-quote="John Slejpner" data-source="post: 6326624" data-attributes="member: 819"><p>I like my rough grass field margins / odd corners, but don't have anything resembling an acceptably diverse rotation. 100% white straw cropping.</p><p></p><p>The hotter and drier your climate, the more likely some pest insect population explosion will overwhelm you. Locust plagues being the apex of this possibly.</p><p></p><p>Nobody likes spraying insecticide but i frequently enough spray 30 or 50 ml of generic hallmark, and i don't think it devastates higher insects. rather i don't see that it does. If i have to spray for blossom midge i will, and i think spraying either side of 10pm helps.</p><p></p><p>If you are using hallmark, pre-treat hard water with Chek / X-Change etc. If water is soft use a bit of mineral acid to take pH below 6. more bang for your a.i.</p><p>By inference, don't expect a lot from hallmark tank-mixed with 5 kg of mag sulphate etc etc.IMO</p><p></p><p>Just anecdotes no answers sorry.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Slejpner, post: 6326624, member: 819"] I like my rough grass field margins / odd corners, but don't have anything resembling an acceptably diverse rotation. 100% white straw cropping. The hotter and drier your climate, the more likely some pest insect population explosion will overwhelm you. Locust plagues being the apex of this possibly. Nobody likes spraying insecticide but i frequently enough spray 30 or 50 ml of generic hallmark, and i don't think it devastates higher insects. rather i don't see that it does. If i have to spray for blossom midge i will, and i think spraying either side of 10pm helps. If you are using hallmark, pre-treat hard water with Chek / X-Change etc. If water is soft use a bit of mineral acid to take pH below 6. more bang for your a.i. By inference, don't expect a lot from hallmark tank-mixed with 5 kg of mag sulphate etc etc.IMO Just anecdotes no answers sorry. [/QUOTE]
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