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I wanted to add the experiment i did this year to kill off the green catepillars that were destroying my fruit trees!first i was letting them live there, being nice, but then they really started eating all the leaves. it was driving me nuts seeing the total destruction of the leaves, and one tree dropped its fruits(100s of fruits!). that was the last straw so i figured after a while, that i could use the shop vac to suck them right off the trees. i took the shop vac out, modified the end of the hose so that it was a smaller diameter tube for more suction and started sucking the tree. it worked very well and i was excited that i did not have to use pesticides to have fruit on the trees. most of the time i only had to go over the branches at a medium pace to get them to fall off and have them contained in the vacuum. obviously im sure there were some that survived, but you get this when you spray pesticides on trees as well.
at this point the trees are doing well, they are small trees, so it didnt take alot of effort to do this, im sure its about the same effort as spraying the trees. the trees recovered there foilage and look very healthy, the fruits have no holes or blemishes from the bugs, because they are all gone lol.
the scientific part i figured from this is, i didnt spray any chemical that the bugs can evolve to, to become resistant. useing a mechanical method as the suction takes the bugs right out, it doesnt allow some to survive and get resistant to a chemical, which they can lay there babies which can be resistant to the pesticide, this is a great find(thus i used no poisons and refuse to!
)! also, by sucking a whole group of the catepillars off the trees i have eliminated a part of the insects life cycle, so that theoretically the population of the insects will be less next year. so next years suctioning, thoretically should not be as much. if they become strong enough to hold on, i can always increase the suction, and also, they become afixiated when the vacuum decreased the oxygen around them causing them to weaken there grasp. from this, the shop vacuum can be a powerful organic pesticide! after they can be made into compost or food for chickens for people who have them, or probably good fish food too!! all that protein catepillar lol...
hope this helps the people going organic, tell me what you guys think lol....
at this point the trees are doing well, they are small trees, so it didnt take alot of effort to do this, im sure its about the same effort as spraying the trees. the trees recovered there foilage and look very healthy, the fruits have no holes or blemishes from the bugs, because they are all gone lol.
the scientific part i figured from this is, i didnt spray any chemical that the bugs can evolve to, to become resistant. useing a mechanical method as the suction takes the bugs right out, it doesnt allow some to survive and get resistant to a chemical, which they can lay there babies which can be resistant to the pesticide, this is a great find(thus i used no poisons and refuse to!
)! also, by sucking a whole group of the catepillars off the trees i have eliminated a part of the insects life cycle, so that theoretically the population of the insects will be less next year. so next years suctioning, thoretically should not be as much. if they become strong enough to hold on, i can always increase the suction, and also, they become afixiated when the vacuum decreased the oxygen around them causing them to weaken there grasp. from this, the shop vacuum can be a powerful organic pesticide! after they can be made into compost or food for chickens for people who have them, or probably good fish food too!! all that protein catepillar lol...hope this helps the people going organic, tell me what you guys think lol....
