[thumper]

This year i grew lots and lots and lots of flowers on my allotment intending to make small posies for my friends and myself. The flowers grew in abundance only trouble
was i could not make use of them for the bugs that came out of them every time i took some indoors. The main problem was lots and i mean lots of very very tiny things a lot smaller than a pin head that kept jumping and popping out all over the place and crawling around everywhere.  I have no idea what they are but would like to try again next year with a solution to the problem any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[Yorkie]

They are pollen beetles, cause no harm and are attracted to the light.  Perhaps place then near a bright light with paper underneath to start with?

[thumper]

Hi Yorkie thanks for your reply i have just looked up Pollen Beetles and its not them. They are very very fine finer than and slimmer than a needle almost like a hair to look at and a very lightish grey you cant even recognise what they are just tiny little hairs no longer than a few mm hopping and jumping out of the flowers they show up really well on white but still cant see what they are or what to do about them.

[Plot22]

Sarah Raven suggests putting the flowers in a dark place like a garage for a few hours.  Apparantly the bugs hop off in search for light and hey presto, a clean bunch of flowers

[thumper]

Hi Sarah thanks for your advice i did give it a go to an extent this year i put them in my very dark allotment shed for an hour before i went home but when i got them home still were hopping about all over my sink drainer. Not nice