Janis, Just after reading you question on how to control cutworms, I 
read this little blurb in our weekend newspaper.  It was written by a 
lady who said that she had no trouble with cutworms because...
Cut the two end off of a 2 litre pop bottle.  (I don't know what the 
eqivalent would be to this size in the US, but the bottle is about 12 
inches high.)  You now have a cylinder which you dig into the ground, 
leaving about one inch above the ground level.  Put soil in it and 
plant your seedling.  I think that cutworms will be near the surface as 
they cut the seedlings at that level and then they live off of it.  
Cutworms are similar in appearance to a grub except that they don't 
have little legs like an insect (which a grub has).  They are about an 
inch long and grayish in colour. 
Hope this helps.
                           Doris Dignard
                      doris.dignard@710.to.org
 * 1st 2.00 #9125 * To err is human, to forgive is out of the question.
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