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Skeeter
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Location: Pensacola, FL zone 9

Posted: Wed 18 Apr, 2007 12:44 pm

I saw the first leaf miner of the year this morning---it was on my Moro Blood Orange. It had already made it to pupal stage on some of the leaves. Time for the oil spray.

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Location: Ramona, CA, Zone 9A

Posted: Thu 19 Apr, 2007 2:33 am

Has anyone in California found any leaf miners yet? After the hard freeze we had, I was hoping it would spell the end their destructive habits this year. I have my bottle of Spinosad still, but I don't want to have to use it.

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Posted: Thu 26 Apr, 2007 10:32 pm

Dare I say it, but I may have won the first round with the miners. I don't see anymore active trails on any of the new growth. I picked all of the infected leaves or killed the larvae and sprayed the kumquat tree with neem oil. The kumquat was the only tree with a fresh flush in progress that was likely to be attacked.

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Posted: Tue 08 May, 2007 3:12 pm

They're back again--short lived victory. I found some on one of my grafts and on one of my seedlings as well as on the kumquat-- I guess I missed a spot!

I picked the infected leaves and put them in a clear jar to see if any are infected with the predator I released last summer.

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