Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: teflon on October 18, 2009, 19:23
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i went to the plot this afternoon to pick my first sprouts of the year&found them to be infested with tiny bugs.They seem to be within the first5-6 layers,leaving the center untouched.
What are these bugs&what can i do (if anything)to get rid of them on the rest of the crop?
Cheers
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I think we need a bit more info, Teflon. Any chance of a pic? :D
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Sorry no pics,but when i lifted the netting to pick them,hundreds of tiny white"moths"(less than 1 mm)flew out.
Cheers
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The "moths" sound like whitefly, classic pest on brassicas.
But what are the bugs - size, colour, do they move etc
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Agree with the whitefly.
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Dark brown or black, they dont seem to be moving,in fact some of them seem to be dead with their legs curled under them.Less than a millemeter in length.
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Any ideas on how to get rid of them?
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Don't worry about them, when you get them home just wash them in salt water that will get rid of them.
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you can reduce the whitefly by spraying with slightly soapy water, but the cold weather will probably see them off soon
Thats what Im hoping anyway as mine are covered
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could be cabbage aphids or most likely white fly scales.