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To: tubebender

Thanks for the pictures. Lovely looking plants. I think I have an infestation of flea beetles. A couple of plants look like teeny tiny buckshot hit them.

I’m going to try some diatematious earth. Not sure what else. Might have to make some garlic/pepper spray.


35 posted on 07/08/2016 8:34:09 PM PDT by greeneyes
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To: greeneyes

I asked Lady Bender about Flea beetles and she thought for a moment and said she would trade you some black aphids for a few of your beetles. Other then that I would look on line for a organic cure.


37 posted on 07/08/2016 8:45:21 PM PDT by tubebender
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To: greeneyes; tubebender
greeneyes :" I think I have an infestation of flea beetles."

Flea Beetles :there are several organic controls:
Trap crop:Southern Giant Mustard (Brassica juncea var. crispifolia), or, interplant radishes—'Chinese Daikon' and 'Snow Belle'.
Botanical pesticides used for controlling flea beetles include neem, rotenone, pyrethrin, sabadilla, and formulations of these in some combination.
Insecticidal soap as an organic option for flea beetles seems to be only moderately successful.
Garlic sprays are useful, as are intermixed plantings of onion , garlic, and members of the mint family.
Diatomaceous earth has been observed to reduce flea-beetle populations, but does so gradually and slowly due to perforations of the beetles exoskelitins (chitinin).
Perhaps a combination of insecticidal soap (surfactant) along with the diatomaceous earth (rupture exoskeletins) would work out well.

53 posted on 07/09/2016 8:25:27 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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