Insect problem on plants?

Question

What is good to keep snails and other insects off of a Orange or Grapefruit tree?

Answer 1

Snails are easy maybe. because they crawl and you can put up barriers. Commercial growers use copper barriers to protect against snails sometimes.

example of success:

http://www.sardi.sa.gov.au/pages/ento/ma...

here is along list of things likely to work against snails:

http://www.ghorganics.com/page13.html

most pest control can be like that. it will generally be a list of things that are small things you can do to take care of one particular bug. like if the problem was bugs with legs crawling up there, u could use a sticky barrier.

list of bugs with some organic cures:

http://www.ghorganics.com/page9.html

list but including diseases and not all organic cures:

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/TOPIC_Garden_Pe...

biological control explained:

http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/biocon...

those lists will tell you stuff like...

a problem with scales means you want to catch them as they are metamorphing. it might be like 10 days out of the year and those ten days will happen according to what area you are in.

getting local info can be done from county extension sites; oftentimes at universities. or local growers associations. you would be looking to see if they had texts on local spray schedules and pest control.

US and territories, extension offices:

http://www.csrees.usda.gov/Extension/ind...

US and Canada master gardener/fact sheets:

http://www.northerngardening.com/extensi...

to find your "agricultural university", maybe best to search those words with your state or country name. you can also try substituting "agricultural college".

here is a short list:

http://www.oneglobe.com/agriculture/agco...

a long one, only for if you know it's name already:

http://www.123world.com/universities/ind...

for MOST plants the dangers and details can vary from area

to area and bug to bug. i really do not know citrus or i might be able to tell u if there was other things u would commonly have to watch for or guard against.

here is the page for citrus in florida:

http://www.ultimatecitrus.com/info.html#...

page with TX, AZ, CO and CA included:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=citrus+...

citrus in Asia:

http://www.agnet.org/library/bc/52008/

africa:

http://www.infonet-biovision.org/default...

how to identify unknown bugs:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=bug+ide...

about pesticide use:

http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/about/inde...

general citrus growing and pest links:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=citrus+...