On 5/4/2016 8:10 AM, Micky wrote:
The other day I wanted to buy Tanglefoot, a natural product that's
sticky and you can use it to keep ants etc. from going up your tree
and getting your cherries. (They ate 80 of 100 last year.) Not at
Home Depot or Lowes but at Amazon. But I was in no rush so I waited
for 6 weeks to put together their minimum $49 order and then to my
surprise they didn't have the tube anymore, and no one did except a
place in Canada that wouldn't ship it to the US, even though they have
a store in Rochester. Fortunately Amazon and some others still had a
little bucket, which will be harder to use. (Have to use popsicle
sticks instead of just squeezing the tube.)
It turns out the company went out of business on Feb 1 and their stock
is rapidly being bought out. It's the only product of its kind, and
when I bought my house 33 years ago it came with a partly empty tube
of Tanglefood, though I can't remember what the seller told me it was
for. So it was on the market, with some related products, for 33+
years No, maybe 100 or 130 years.
A Charlotte NC headline 'Tanglefoot shortage gums up Charlotte's
cankerworm fight " Company that manufactured it went out of business
Oh, it was Feb of 2015, not just 3 months ago.
http://www.mlive.com/business/west-m...ot_compan.html
Back in 2009: 125-year-old Tanglefoot Company of Grand Rapids sold
to Contech Enterprises of Canada
And also: "We are out of Tanglefoot but still have all of the other
banding supplies in stock. The company that made Tanglefoot went out
of business and this year we only sold Tanglefoot that we had from
last year’s order. We have not found a worthwhile substitute and have
exhausted our sources. We do not know whether or not it will be made
next year."
Ah, this is good:
Fortunately, the Tanglefoot shortage should be temporary. Consumer
gardening giant Scotts Miracle-Gro has purchased the Tanglefoot
formula, and production is slated to resume in the spring of 2016,
says Leeann Pfleider, Consumer Service Specialist for Scotts.
(But I probably can't wait. First, it will probably take longer than
that, and second, the cherries ripen on Memorial day and they get
eaten by ants mostly in the last 2 weeks of May. )
Read more he
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/new...#storylink=cpy
Aparently, rule one of dictator and despotic
governments is to make the peasants miserable.
Find out what works, and ban it. Freon, spray
cans, large cups of soda pop, DDT, and the
list goes on.
Rule two, is to interfere with the food supply,
and prohibit home grown food, such as your
cherry trees.
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