So I have been fighting a cucumber beetle invasion for a couple of weeks. They finally got bad enough that I decided to take drastic action and bought this
http://www.biconet.com/botanicals/infosheets/takedownRTULabel.pdf
I wouldn't normally use pyrethrin due to the fact that it is non-specific but nothing else was making a dent in the beetles. I have never seen cucumber beetles do any significant damage to peppers until this year. I am assuming because of the drought there isn't much else to eat around here.
I sprayed all of the peppers in one garden, bhuts and butch t's with a 2% pyrethrin spray. Two days later and the Butch T's are about 50-75% defoliated. They just shed like crazy, look really burnt. The bhuts are perfectly fine. I am just wondering if anyone else has ever noticed such a severe difference between varieties when using pyrethrin? It is definitely not something I will be using again anytime soon.
http://www.biconet.com/botanicals/infosheets/takedownRTULabel.pdf
I wouldn't normally use pyrethrin due to the fact that it is non-specific but nothing else was making a dent in the beetles. I have never seen cucumber beetles do any significant damage to peppers until this year. I am assuming because of the drought there isn't much else to eat around here.
I sprayed all of the peppers in one garden, bhuts and butch t's with a 2% pyrethrin spray. Two days later and the Butch T's are about 50-75% defoliated. They just shed like crazy, look really burnt. The bhuts are perfectly fine. I am just wondering if anyone else has ever noticed such a severe difference between varieties when using pyrethrin? It is definitely not something I will be using again anytime soon.