On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 17:44:19 -0000, "Anthony Stokes"
wrote:

I have this week each day thoroughly sprayed
leaves and stem of a half-metre high Banana plant ( Musa Chini Champa )
using the 0.125g/l concentration of imidacloprid 'Provado Ultimate Bug
Killer".
There is no apparent diminition of activity or any evident discomfort caused
to a large
population of very miniscule tiny greenish 'creepy crawly bugs' (species
unknown) that are continually walking over the banana leaves.

Any idea for an alternative
treatment to remove these tiny bugs without harming the banana plant;
or what they might be ?

Gently wash the leaves with ordinary soap -- not detergent -- then
rinse the plant under a shower of tepid water. Be sure to wash behind
its ears, so to speak: leave no surface untouched and be sure the suds
dribbles down into the crown.

Your creepy-crawlies sound like spider mites.


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Rodger Whitlock
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