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aphids damage

  • 24-05-2012 04:33PM
    #1
    fepper
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    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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  • #2
    greenfingers89
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    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?


  • #3
    fepper
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    in n.kerry greenfingers


  • #4
    pburns
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    I had that problem a few years ago in one section. Isn't water-logged soil a cause? Neighbour's drain got blocked:rolleyes:


  • #5
    fepper
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    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


  • #6
    Silvics
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    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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