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Old 04-25-2018, 10:30 AM
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Default Birch leaf miner help needed.

I was hoping someone could help direct me to someone who’ll inject my birch for leaf miner treatment. Seems anyone I call in Calgary wants to make it a long drawn out and very expensive process, involving consultation etc...

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Old 04-25-2018, 01:38 PM
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My neighbors bought a box of lady bugs off the web for something like that affecting their box elder (Manitoba maple) and it seemed to work, most of them flew into our yard and it might take a couple attempts
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Old 04-25-2018, 02:10 PM
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Birch trees have not been doing well for several years now because of a lack of water. This opens them up to pests. We run our sump pump hose out to our birch and this had good effects for a few years. Ours is slowly dying. Used a birch leaf miner treatment which helped also. BEL
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Old 04-25-2018, 02:22 PM
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https://www.costco.ca/Ladybug-And-La...100350819.html

These work like a charm, I let a couple bags loose every year
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Old 04-25-2018, 02:40 PM
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Had the injections done on my birch a few years ago. It was around $250 and worked a charm. No repeats were necessary. Darned if I can remember the Calgary company that did it though.
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Old 04-25-2018, 11:57 PM
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A fellow PM'ed me today and got a local guy coming to do an injection in May. Price was $150 for an 8" tree.
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