Help Me Create An Invertebrate Wasteland

[AaronM]

Does anyone know if malathion is safe to use on orchids? I was repotting some hanging baskets and found the medium full of juvenile roaches, silverfish and earwigs. I was thinking about giving the baskets a quick dunk in some watered down malathion to clean them out.

Aaron "The Bug Slayer" M

[unhappykat]

Originally Posted by AaronM

Does anyone know if malathion is safe to use on orchids? I was repotting some hanging baskets and found the medium full of juvenile roaches, silverfish and earwigs. I was thinking about giving the baskets a quick dunk in some watered down malathion to clean them out.

Aaron "The Bug Slayer" M

Yes malithion is perfectly safe to use on orchids, Instead of just dunking the baskets in the solution I would also treat the growing area with the stuff to kill any thing that is still waiting for you to return the plants so they can be reinfested.

[Ranchnanny]

You can use beer to get the slugs. Sink a pie plate in the ground so the little slipery things can get over the rim then fill with beer You can also use Greyline Slug Killer. No slugs here in Central Oregon cause its too dry.

Sheridan

[unhappykat]

Originally Posted by Ranchnanny

You can use beer to get the slugs. Sink a pie plate in the ground so the little slipery things can get over the rim then fill with beer You can also use Greyline Slug Killer. No slugs here in Central Oregon cause its too dry.

Sheridan

How dry is it there, I live in central California, its a desert here and we still have tons of snails, I mean dry, have you ever seen a cactus wilt, I have! Its not a pretty picture.

[Ranchnanny]

Hello Unhappykat, Its suppose to be around 101 tomorrow. But you should be used to high temps in that part of Calif. Terrebonne/Crooked River Ranch is in the High Desert of Central Oregon just about 3000 +/-ft.high. Just about 26 miles from the hub of Bend, Oregon. Our cactus here wilt during the winter with the really low temps and snow but they come back in the spring.

Sheridan

[Swamper]

THAT'S DRY

[unhappykat]

Originally Posted by Ranchnanny

Hello Unhappykat, Its suppose to be around 101 tomorrow. But you should be used to high temps in that part of Calif. Terrebonne/Crooked River Ranch is in the High Desert of Central Oregon just about 3000 +/-ft.high. Just about 26 miles from the hub of Bend, Oregon. Our cactus here wilt during the winter with the really low temps and snow but they come back in the spring.

Sheridan

Ah, winter wilting cactus, thats a new one. I will have to visit this frozen desert one day, sounds wonderful during winter, all we get is three months of 'cool' rain followed by ninemonths of drought. I need to move, Im starting to get weirded out by this backwards weather, Maybe somewhere tropical. After I see this winter wilted cactus. OH, it will be around 101 here as well, 103 today, i hate the news man, always predicting the weather, I cant watch it anymore it depresses me,

[AaronM]

Come on guys 101 in August. In Arizona, where I grew up, no one even switches fro swamp coolers to A/C until it hits 110 (which usually happens sometime in May). We used to have summers so hot and dry the cinder block walls wilted.
As for the malathion. Anything I should be warned about. Will it make my skin peel or cause my toenails to bleed?

Thanks.

Aaron "Doesn't Sweat Under 115 Degrees" M

[dgenovese1]

Aaron,
If you use the Malathion directly on your plants, make sure it's not hotter than 80 degrees outside. It is an oil based product and it could cause your plant's foliage to fry along with your bugs...not a pretty picture.

[unhappykat]

Do the spraying in the evening when the sun sets and in the morning spray the leaves to get any residue off so the leaves dont burn, And arizona gets rain showers in the summer, were talking about nine months of drought, then three months of Noahs ark when its freezing outside, at least to me I dont think it goes below thirty in the winter.