Re: How to kill pests

From: John Walker (jorwa@syspac.com)
Date: Wed Aug 13 1997 - 08:10:36 PDT 

Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 08:10:36 -0700 (MST)
From: John Walker <jorwa@syspac.com>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
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Subject: Re: How to kill pests

Hi Cyril,

I have not had good luck using insecticides that contain pyrethrins on
drosera. The leaves wilt and die whithin a few days. It did seem to work
well on vft's and American pitchure plants.

Hope this helps,
John in Phoenix

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At 04:45 AM 8/13/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello to all from France
>I have yet another problem with my beloved plants.
>I noticed this morning little green pests (about 1/2 mm long)
>on my D. Capensis flower stalks, then I looked all the others plants
>and realized they had spread all over the pot.
>They remain on the plants, not on the soil.
>Vincent told me they were aphids.
>I just got to my preferred CP shop and bought some insecticid, it =
>contains
>0.25% pyrethroid (dunno if it is the right term in english, in french,
>they say 'pyr=E8to=EFde').
>Is this insecticid is harmless for my plants?
>If so, should I use a lot or hust a little ?
>
>Thanks in advance for your help
>Sincerely
> Cyril
>
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