So the thing is to dust with Sevin at the plant bases, to protect from SVB moth/borers? But not to get it near the flowers to keep the bees safe? And need to reapply after a heavy rain?
I bought some Sevin dust last week, same stuff I bought a couple years ago. It worked extremely well against leaf munching bugs, but I wasn't sure about SVB. I have used pesticides very sparingly.
Bill are you saying to mix the dust (5% dust I think)? into a solution and spray it? Or are you talking about liquid Sevin that is a totally different pesticide?
I just took the cover off my summer squash, yesterday, for the first time. No bugs present that I could see. Some small squash that will hopefully get pollinated today before they end up rotting.
That no bugs thing lasted about 12 seconds, as you can see!
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