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Bill who putters wrote:

In article
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Billy wrote:

I thought that they were such cute little bugs when I first saw them.
My attitude has changed since they have turned the leaves of my
eggplants into lace. I'm planning to use the following recipe but it
won't be ready until tommorrow.

Garlic/Pepper Mixture
€ 1/2 cup hot peppers of your choice
€ 1/2 cup garlic cloves ( onions will also do )
€ 2 cups water
Steep this mixture for 24 hours. An easy method for steeping the tea is
to combine the ingredients in a clear glass jar, seal, and set in a
sunny location. Strain and spray onto foliage.


Additionally, I check out the nursery for nematodes today. Any other
ideas?

This PDF touches on what you mostly know. Physical barriers caught my
mind. Be careful with the Rotenone like stuff. Seems you may have a
task.

Bill

http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/PDF/fleabeetle.pdf

Well, spiffy. I got me some stuff called Monterey Garden Insect Spray.
which comes from Fresno, and, of course, appears to be a subsidiary for
DowAgro, aaaaaaah (

It has a snappy new insecticide called "spinosad".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinosad

and it can kill bees and aquatic non-vertebrates.

It seems that the trick is to apply late in the evening, when there are
no bees around, and should be dry by morning (harder for the bees to get
it on them). The eggplants aren't in flower.

I got a couple of hours to think about it. What do you think?

Oh, I also got some nematodes for the flea beetle larval stage.

Luckily :O) I have some twice froze habaneros (yucky) so I'll whip me
up a Scoville cocktail for the little bastides ;O)).
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- Billy
"For the first time in the history of the world, every human being
is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the
moment of conception until death." - Rachel Carson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En2TzBE0lp4

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1050688.html