Hi Del:
Yrs ago in a suburb north of Boston (Ipswich-where
I am from), we had a tenacious attack of the gypsy moths
that eradicated trees by the tonnage.
My Dad had a flowering dogwood that he was quite
fond of and I decided to try an experiment to see if it would work.
This only works if your bark is relatively smooth
where you put this.
You get a roll of shipping tape but a real good
variety that has real good stickiness (like at Staples-more spensive)
and
you definitely want the dispenser with it
and wrap the tree backwards sticky side out. I
would change the tape almost
every 3 days at first and then as things
slowed down, weekly. But it worked. The tree was
completely undamaged and
all the other trees looked like the morning
after apocalypse
now and were nuked and completely defoliated.
I have since used this idea on other trees that are
subject to attack by crawlers and it does work pretty well.
Rain will wear it out over time but usually it does
the trick before it breaks down. The great thing
is there is no residual
anything and it just peels back off leaving
everything fine.
I think it also helps growth because it's sort of a
greenhouse effect when you've wrapped the tree with a fair amount of
clear plastic and warms the trunk quite
nicely...
Hope this helps.
Hey, why do you think the geese flew in, in
formation? I thought they only did that in departing/migrating?
Best of growing,
~Gianni
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