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Gardening in mediterranean climates => Pests and diseases => Topic started by: Pia on December 13, 2015, 08:23:03 PM

Title: Olive fly, time to act?
Post by: Pia on December 13, 2015, 08:23:03 PM

Our olives are badly infested by the olive fly. We have tried pheromone traps, which was not of any effect.
Basically we do not want to use chemicals, but we have decided to try it one year or may be two, and then stop it again.
What we are planning now is to hang bottles with some fluid (naphtalin?? or??) and spray the trees with some chemical afterwards - and now the question:
The right time to do it (the one and the other),
What is best to put into the bottles,
What chemical to use?

Our grove is at Peloponnese, south of Nafplion.
Thank you, Pia

Title: Re: Olive fly, time to act?
Post by: Fleur Pavlidis on December 14, 2015, 10:09:10 PM

You'll find useful information on the MGS website http://www.mediterraneangardensociety.org/olives.html (http://www.mediterraneangardensociety.org/olives.html) , especially the article on organic olives by Chevrel Traher.

Title: Re: Olive fly, time to act?
Post by: Pia on December 16, 2015, 09:35:24 PM

Thank you so much, Fleur. We will study this :)

Title: Re: Olive fly, time to act?
Post by: GRJoe on December 27, 2015, 12:08:08 PM

Found this Poster with the Italian title "La Flora Utile" outside a Masseria in Puglia, Italy, and thought it could be a useful complement to this post as well as to Chevrel Traher's article "Organic Olives."