How do you kill or contol peach tree bores and trantula hawks or keep thm from taking over your peach trees?
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For peach tree borers the best chemical control is Bacillus thuringiensis at bloom or a spray combining oil and an organophosphate spray--which will also kill a number of other insects such as scale--best time to do is dormant season-December-January. If coverage is good, populations will be reduced over 95%. If at bloom time-using Bacillus thuringiensis, you need 2 applications-the first a popcorn budding and then 7 to 10 days later--this controls the larvae-once fruit and twigs are infested in the spring, control is much more difficult.
Tarantula hawks (wasps of the hempepsis genus) are very difficult to get rid of. I read that one man used an exterminator, Raid, Diazonon, etc-to no good result--and finally resorted to flyswatters.
Peach tree borer spray.
Get some aluminum pie plates and tie them to the trees, and when the wind blows it will make the noise and the hawks will go away.I don't know about the bores.
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