Incects in corn

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  • April 16, 2013 at 8:13 pm #78557
    Eli
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    How do I control Incects in sweet corn without incectacide? I have chickens and ducks.    Eli

    April 17, 2013 at 8:51 pm #78573
    Eli
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    Does it help to fence in the corn and put the chickens in once in a wile?

    April 17, 2013 at 9:57 pm #78577
    dominiquer60
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    http://www.nysipm.cornell.edu/grantspgm/projects/proj11/veg/seaman.asp

    Some folks have used parasitic wasps with success, I just pick out the worm before I eat an ear.

    April 17, 2013 at 10:11 pm #78578
    Eli
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    I would do the same but my family and friends would freek o well.

    April 22, 2013 at 9:48 pm #78653
    Mac
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    Around here, they say that you can put a drop of mineral oil in the tip of each ear just as it begins to silk, and it will smother the worm. I myself have not tried it, and have others tell me it don’t work. I prefer to spray it, and even that doesn’t work 100 percent of the time. So it looks like the best way to go will be to cut the worm-eaten part off before you cook it. That’s the way I do it.

    Mac

    April 23, 2013 at 10:49 pm #78678
    Roscoe
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    Since nearly 30 years,  these wasp are used in Switzerland for worm control. It was in a trial phase at that time, so we went through many different desings of cardboard frames and other setups who contains wasp eggs. It’s pretty labor intensiv. It took the whole evening for the whole family to hang the frames to the corn. You barely can see these wasp, they are pretty small, but it works.

    But I don’t know if they still use the same system today, would have to ask my brother.

    May 4, 2013 at 5:38 am #79417
    wild millers
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    The mineral oil trick has worked for us in the past, the key is getting the timing just right though. To get the whole planting treated this way on time is a really time consuming endeavor for us so we stopped doing it and we have also moved to simply cutting the tips or warning customers that they may find some insect life in their corn. Though we have seen very reduced if not eliminated insect pressure in our later plantings of sweet corn with no treatment at all. While the early plantings always seem to suffer.

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