Eating foliage of my sunflowers and hydrangeas
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Wanda K
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Last year and the year before, I had a terrible time in my both my vegetable garden and flower beds. Something was eating small holes in the leaves of my plants. When I turned the leaves over I could see small yellow "eggs" on the leaves. Anyone know what the culprit is, and how to treat it before it happens again this coming up season??? Thanks.
8 answers
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Do you have any photos? Or can you tell us what specific plants it attacked?
3po3
on Feb 24, 2013
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I'll second Steve's question. It's hard to know what the problem might be without more information.
Douglas Hunt
on Feb 25, 2013
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it appears you have spider mites ,spray with a insectacide top and underneath of foliage drench good and follow up in 2 weeks and do again
Lawn Pro
on Feb 25, 2013
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Forgot to mention you can also use dormant Lil.this will smother the insects
Lawn Pro
on Feb 25, 2013
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The plants that it seems to like most is my sunflower foliage, eggplant leaves, and my hydrangea leaves. Nothing touched the tomatoes, peppers, or herbs. I used a homemade pesticide of neem oil, and also tried a soap and cayenne pepper spray . Which helped some, but they always came back.
Wanda K
on Feb 25, 2013
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What is dormant Lil? Is it organic? I really do not want to kill any of the beneficial insects as well.
Wanda K
on Feb 25, 2013
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Wanda, I think you're on the right track. You might try a commercial insecticidal soap like Safer.
Douglas Hunt
on Feb 26, 2013
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@Wanda K your best bet may be to take a few leaves with the eggs - well seled in a baggie - to your local nursery. They should be able to identify and recomend the appropriat treatment. I had to do this a couple of years ago for an infestation on my creeping virginia. The recommended an ecological spray that worked well, haven't seen them since.
Gail Salminen
on Mar 20, 2013
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