Cold tolerance of bamboo mites ?

Booboy · Post by **Booboy** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:04 am

Anyone have any idea how cold it has to be and for how long to kill bamboo mites. It will be down to -13 C (8.6F) with the windchill here on Vancouver Island. Would be so gread to have them all die.

Bill Howard · Post by **Bill Howard** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:13 pm

Booboy.......
Try this:

In a blender filled with 1/2 full of WATER
put TWO GARLIC BULBS, and 1 tablespoon of ground CAYENNE pepper - blend 4-5 minutes then STRAIN into a gallon jug - fill up the jug with clear water.
Put 1/4 cup of the mixture into a 2 gallon garden sprayer....

and 'voila' this stuff kills all bad bugs or at least slows them down for a while but doesn't POISON anything.

Gunnar_GG · Post by **Gunnar_GG** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 2:42 am

Couple, three winters ago we saw 8?F here; it made no difference to the 'boo mites.

foxd · Post by **foxd** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 2:49 am

Gunnar_GG wrote:Couple, three winters ago we saw 8?F here; it made no difference to the 'boo mites.

How long was it at 8?F?

Gunnar_GG · Post by **Gunnar_GG** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 3:18 am

Overnight, and that was enough, thank you.

CadyG · Post by **CadyG** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 4:51 am

Bill,
I don't know how well that recipe works on bamboo mites, but it sure as heck would keep me away from your bamboo. Then again, if there were nice, juicy sweet shoots coming up, garlic and cayenne may be just the right seasoning...Gently steamed. Maybe a squeeze of lime... hmm.

Gunnar_GG · Post by **Gunnar_GG** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 9:29 pm

Has anyone EVER reported mites being damaged by cold temperatures?

Bill Howard · Post by **Bill Howard** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 9:37 pm

Sorry
I never had them little buggers (mites). I think my neighbors chickens gobbles them all up. In the last 2 weeks I've seen the local bobcat get 3 of his chickens....HA-HA ... I hate those chickens. They wake me up before dawn. So I have an anger issue. But they do eat a good amount of the bugs around here so I'm not that mad.

Post by **bambooweb** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 10:19 pm

I have been told by people with mite infested bamboo that the cold temps that I have will kill them but no one that I talked to had any proof of that.

I did talk to someone from the northeast that has a different bamboo mite that overwinters in the leaf litter below the bamboo then infests the bamboo in the spring.

Bill

CadyG · Post by **CadyG** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:16 pm

I've had some kind of mite affecting my container bamboos that come indoors for winter. Leaving them outside in subfreezing weather for a day seems to help keep them under control.

It's all anecdotal, though. Maybe someone should set up a research, collecting bamboo mites and doing cold-tolerance tests. Anyone up for putting mites in their freezer?

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