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[Chris J. Durden]

No. All I can say is I have seen bug zappers in more than one vegetable
garden in Austin. I have not talked with the gardeners and I have no idea
how well they work. Someone must think it effective to run a bug zapper in
a vegetable garden for several years.
  As for both Ortho and bug zappers - I think they are an abomination. I
raise *Urbanus proteus* on my haricots verts, so I try to run a clean
garden with plenty of roaches in the compost pile and *Asterocampa* on the
rotting plantains in the old martin house. Other things I have in abundance
from eyed elaters to *Mantispa* and *Mantispila* and even strepsipterans
and *Bipalium kewense* under logs.
........Chris

At 03:36  7/11/00 +0000, you wrote:
>I wrote:
>
>> >If bug zappers could truly kill significant numbers of moths, how come
>> >no one uses them in the home fruit and vegetable garden to control
>> >common moth pests?
>
>Chris J. Durden wrote:
> 
>> They do here in Texas!
>
>Chris, are you saying bug zappers really do work to control vegetable 
>garden infesting moths in Texas? If so, does that mean less Ortho type 
>chemical pesticide sprays are needed?  Which method (bug zapper vs. Ortho)
>do you feel is the lesser of two evils?
>
>Paul Cherubini
>
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