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aphids damage

  • 24-05-2012 4:33pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,434 ✭✭✭


    these little pests have turned my lovely green sitka spruce plantation into a bronze/yellow plantation now,they must be like the locusts in africa,anyone else with this problem?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 262 ✭✭greenfingers89


    fepper wrote: »
    these little pests have turned my lovely green sitka spruce plantation into a bronze/yellow plantation now,they must be like the locusts in africa,anyone else with this problem?

    hope you dont mind me asking what part of the country is your plantation in?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,434 ✭✭✭fepper


    in n.kerry greenfingers


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,423 ✭✭✭pburns


    I had that problem a few years ago in one section. Isn't water-logged soil a cause? Neighbour's drain got blocked:rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,434 ✭✭✭fepper


    dont know about that now but my forestry in lowland and gets a fair amount of water runoff of the surrounding higher land but drainge is good enuf after a few days,just to add a lot of springs in this area too


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 128 ✭✭Silvics


    had quietened down for a couple of years with the extreme cold winters, but the past mild winter I've noticed it seems to be a problem again. Saw it last week in Cork and Clare on some plantations. The following should be of interest
    http://www.coford.ie/media/coford/content/publications/projectreports/cofordconnects/Aphid.pdf


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