Re: [gardeners] Whitefles
Margaret Lauterbach (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Sun, 21 Oct 2001 08:52:27 -0600
This guy is a loose cannon, at it again. If you follow his instructions,
can he restore your child's life if she or he drinks some of your tobacco
concoction? No, he cannot. Tobacco used to be sold in the U.S. for use as
a pesticide, but it was taken off the market because of it's
danger. Nicotine also soaks through the skin, should you spray into the
wind. Margaret L
>RE: Rodales "Color Handbook of Garden Insects" by Anna Carr. Pg 206.
>Printed 1997.
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>Control with Tobacco Dust or tobacco tea.
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>We have 3 types of whitefly here,
>greenhouse, silver leaf and banded.
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>Tobacco,, Use chewing tobacco or a cigar. All varieties of these tobacco's
>have been TMV free for over 30 years.
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>Effect on beneficials? I have hundreds of Dragonflies in my garden,
>Dragonflies are the most sensitive to excess fertilizers and pesticides of
>all the benefical insect.
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>Toxic level of tobacco, So low that it does not need an EPA label.
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>Byron
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