[vegmandan]

My polytunnel and every single plant in it is covered in microscopic thrips (I think) tiny little yellowish slender bugs about 1-2 mm long...millions of 'em.

They are wrecking the squashes leaves and making a right mess of the cucumber leaves too.

Is there an insecticide which might help to controll them ?

I've ordered some Bug Clear ,will this work ?

Cheers.

[Mr Gyles]

Hi there,

I'm quite new to veg gardening and I Didn't know what the little blighters were so I did a search. Have a look at this:

http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profiles0801/thrips.asp

Hope this helps.

[peapod]

Hi there,

I'm quite new to veg gardening and I Didn't know what the little blighters were so I did a search. Have a look at this:

http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profiles0801/thrips.asp

Hope this helps.

Very nice of you to make your first post a helpful one Mr Gyles!

nice to meet you :-)

Please tell us more about yourself on the welcome forums :-)

Paula

[Bignij]

Another Notts lad. We're taking over I tell ya.

[Mr Gyles]

yeah thanks for the welcome.

I just managed to rent an allotment off the local council just over a month ago.

It's been a steep learning curve but with the help of this site, the net and a few books I'm getting there.