Comments on: Rose Chafers

By: Cahri

Cahri — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:38:55 +0000

You can try Sabadilla, this is an organic non toxic and also non selective insecticide. It paralyzes them in their tracks….sad genoicide but very effective. I recommended it (in my harlequin bug article) for infestations when populations were severe. Use it sparingly and selectively.
“Sabadilla Dust
Sabadilla is a broad spectrum insecticide that comes from the seeds of a lily indigenous to Central and South America. It affects the nerve cells of insects, causing paralysis and then death. It is primarily used for adult insects that are hard to control with other botanical insecticides. Although the dust is considered to be the least toxic of all registered botanical insecticides, the active alkaloids in its pure, extracted form are very toxic and can make a person sick if ingested or absorbed through the skin and mucous membranes. Sabadilla is highly toxic to honeybees and should only be used in the evening, after they have returned to their hives. It degrades rapidly in sunlight and air, leaving no harmful residues.”
Good luck.

By: pcburke

pcburke — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:15:21 +0000

Oh if you only knew how bad these buggers are!Every year for 10 years, and only for a few months during the summer. I have hand picked about a large coffee can a day, diped them in gas and burned them, they are still winning. I spray’d and they kept comming. Enough got under/over the floating row cover to do their dirty deed to my roses. Not to mention what they have done to my apples and cherrys etc etc..I soaped and sprayed sevin, they laughed. I bought chafer traps, they avoided them.milky spore, and beneficials haven’t helped. They seem to be in a small zone in the middle of about 30 acres. I own 5 of it.The majority of them cover about 10-15 acres and 1/4 mile up the road they have never seen them. I moved my house 5 years ago and tilled most of the land in the process.If these got loose in a orchard it would be hurrendous, any suggestions?

By: KEN DEAN

KEN DEAN — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:53:58 +0000

how do you get read of them i have alot of roses and thay are killing them