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Woohoo! my first bugs!
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okay, maybe I shouldn't be excited but I am. I had read of using Nasturtiums as a trap-crop. Well I got my first little infestation of bugs and they were on one of my Nasturtiums. After an tiring underleaf inspection-nothing else has any. WooHoo it worked! The Nasturtium isn't hurting for leafs so I just pinched out the half-dozen infected members. I seem to recall reading about some kind of black aphid. These were similar, but none on the stem. The bugs are charcoal black. They seem to be laying a field of black eggs on the underside of leaves, surrounding the point where the stem connects. One had at least fifty around. The bug..well it had a big ol' butt sticking in the air with a small pointed head. Six legs... although I wasn't sure whether the front two were legs or antennae. It was tiny, the adult were like a pelleted petunia seed. north of NYC, Zone 6/7 DiGiTAL_ViNYL (no email) |
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