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Feb 12, 2015 7:02 AM CST
Name: Sue
Ontario, Canada (Zone 4b)
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Thanks, Hilary. There is a lengthy dissertation on the gall midge that is written in German. It describes experiments and their biology and I got the impression from what I managed to translate with translator software that a mulch, something like coarse wood chips maybe, might be helpful. It's so long ago now since I did that that I don't remember the details. The dissertation gives emergence temperatures and all kinds of useful things. It really needs someone who understands German and entomology to go through it and pick out what might be useful.

Agreed if the neighbours don't do something they'll likely come back (the midges, not the neighbours Smiling , although the midges aren't terribly strong fliers from what I understand. Are there neighbours with daylilies very close?

Have you thought about keeping those two cultivars as "trap" plants like some people do with early yellows where the latter are attacked? Maybe there's something about your climate that delays their emergence, although you'd think that would affect the flowering times of the daylilies too.

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