"MikeMTM" > wrote in message
>
> Ken,
>
> On a young vine the damage done by grape cane girdlers is alarming, but
> I've never had a vine succumb. Just snap off the egg carrying portion,
> down to the lowermost girdle, and burn or otherwise destroy. The vines
> will pop axial buds from the next one or two node. After a few weeks,
> when the danger of further girdling is past, you can remove the lower
> sprouts and leave the uppermost as a leader. There's every likelihood
> that you'll get to the wire.
>
>
My vineyard is small enough to where I can do as you suggest. I'm hoping that
by removing what eggs I can find, I might actually be able to have an impact
on next year's population. But that might just be wishful thinking.
Ken