Mile-a-Minute
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Weed Wacker
5 year old buck +
Yes I do know oust will kill fruit trees, I learned that the hard way Dave Jackson from Penn State is really the guy you need to talk to. He has been experimenting with mile a minute control and oust for a long time. As far as the air Blast sprayer, I guess it's actually called a mist blower. Mine is a cifarelli with a 4.5 gallon tank. It can get heavy lugging around in the woods but man does it cover a big area in a short time.
Tap
5 year old buck +
Okay, I'm willing to try a small test spray with gly. I'll stay clear of my more valuable trees and spray the more open areas.
Question: how much coverage does each plant require for a kill? Vines can be 20 feet long or more. Do I need get spray on just a few leaves or a high percentage?
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mikmaze
5 year old buck +
I try for as much as possible, might want to add a sticker as the mam leaves tend to roll water off like a ducks back. you have the time to try a few test applications, 1% gly in a gallon of water and do a full coverage, 50 % and a 25% coverage and go back in two weeks. note coverage and see results. you will also see what else in the range of your spray gets killed, or nearly so.
EDIT: I would love to know where to buy a pound of theese guys and let em go at my place............. http://www.nj.gov/agriculture/divisions/pi/pdf/mileaminute.pdf
EDIT: I would love to know where to buy a pound of theese guys and let em go at my place............. http://www.nj.gov/agriculture/divisions/pi/pdf/mileaminute.pdf
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Tap
5 year old buck +
Thanks. Got any links to those threads?
chickenlittle
5 year old buck +
I'll have to go for a walk after work. I think I saw some mile a minute at the end of my road. Could be a look a like.
Bill
Administrator
Looks like they can be had from labs in NJ and DE. Don't know what the permit process is but it's worth a call or two if you have MAM like Tap does.
http://ag.udel.edu/enwc/research/biocontrol/mileaminute.htm
Tap
5 year old buck +
Bill
Administrator
That link mikmaze posted got me interested. Those test plots in Salem and Glouceter county are with in 25 to 30 minutes of me. Heck I've hunted some of them. From the article it sounded like it would be easy to round up a few. I'm just not sure their still there. It looks like they do a number on the MAM.
In any case I wouldn't start the bulldozer just yet. No way to contain a bug once it's set loose. Once those beetles start to spread its game on. I just hope for the sake of the local winery's they don't like grape vines.
mikmaze
5 year old buck +
NJ lab is all out of bugs, I will be trying to call and get on a waiting list for next year, they have had some toroubles raising them, cooling towers got messed up and low numbers available was the result. biologist was going to take a walk around my place and check for evidence of the weevils, they ahve been released within 8 miles of my stuff, and they could be there and I just don't know/ havent seenn them.
Bill
Administrator
Ok then it sounds to me like next spring we need a check list.
Pickup (X)
Map of test sites (X)
Flashlights cause we do this at night (X)
Styrofoam cups with water and honey and a net to cover said cup (X) thats what the pros did to keep the weevils alive
Beer (X)
Maybe a bottle that's clear (X)
Then we need someone with us to explain to the troopers why we're drinking and looking for little beetles. No check there cause my wife won't do it. :) I'll cover all the checks above. You guys get us driver that can explain why a truck full of old guys Is looking for beetles in the middle of night and I'm in. Sounds like fun.
John-W-WI
Administrator
Bill
Administrator
It does actually sound like fun :)
Most troopers around here would have no clue about invasive species eating beetles. I'd love to see someone trying to explain that.....
John-W-WI
Administrator
I would love to try, just for the fun of it. But we have to leave the beer home if I'm talking our way out of it (or hide it really well).
-John
