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New bugs
I haven't been here for quite a while. And only a few posts here
lately. Everyone on vacations? With basically no winter this past year, even my avocados survived and put up new trunks! (I'd planted them last summer thinking "annual"). But global warming has also brought new bugs I haven't seen before. Anyone know what the little liquid gold beetles are? They are about 1/3 size of japanese beetles, and look like drops of mercury (but bright gold in color) on my now lacey morning glory leaves. Kira |
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Kira Dirlik !! wrote: Anyone know what the little liquid gold beetles are? They are about 1/3 size of japanese beetles, and look like drops of mercury (but bright gold in color) on my now lacey morning glory leaves. Probably Tortoise Beetles: http://ipm.ncsu.edu/AG295/html/tortoise_beetles.htm -- Steve |
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When I googled for a picture of "tortoise beetle," this image appeared (on
second page of listings): http://bugguide.net/node/view/10175/bgimage For those of us old enough to remember seeing -- and holding! -- mercury, the Golden Tortoise Beetle is exactly as Kira described it. Anne "Steve" wrote in message ... In article , Kira Dirlik !! wrote: Anyone know what the little liquid gold beetles are? They are about 1/3 size of japanese beetles, and look like drops of mercury (but bright gold in color) on my now lacey morning glory leaves. Probably Tortoise Beetles: http://ipm.ncsu.edu/AG295/html/tortoise_beetles.htm -- Steve |
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Kira Dirlik wrote:
Everyone on vacations? Too busy weeding! Garden report: harvesting tomatoes, eggplant, squash, cucumbers, peppers, basil. Alberto's heavy rain provided needed soil moisture but seems to have helped the pathogens which afflict tomato plants. This year there are larger-than-ever numbers and varieties of insect pests which feast on eggplant foliage. A high wire fence keeps Bambi out of the garden. Any tomato or cucumber vine which sends a branch through the fence gets "barbered". A flock of Canada geese visit several times a day, feeding on grass and the garden rejects which I toss over the fence. Sometimes they stick their long necks through the fence and steal a ripe tomato! This morning I saw a young and rather thin red fox searching for food. Daniel B. Martin |
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New bugs + Eggplant Foliange
Daniel B. Martin wrote: This year there are larger-than-ever numbers and varieties of insect pests which feast on eggplant foliage. I've noticed that too, but can't spot the predator. Any ideas what could be chewing the leaves? And organic methods for control? |
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New bugs + Eggplant Foliange
jan wrote:
Daniel B. Martin wrote: This year there are larger-than-ever numbers and varieties of insect pests which feast on eggplant foliage. I've noticed that too, but can't spot the predator. Any ideas what could be chewing the leaves? And organic methods for control? I use Sevin only in the most desperate of situations. I prefer to hand-pick the BadGuys. Flea beetles are "smooshed" with fingers. Larger insects are dropped into a can of detergent solution. Eggplant pests in my garden include: - Flea Beetles - Colorado Potato Beetles, both adult and larvae - flat green guys (name unknown) which don't move much - Harlequin bugs - Stink bugs - Curculios - Mexican Bean Beetles Some gardeners have trouble with hornworms and slugs too. Daniel B. Martin |
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New bugs + Eggplant Foliange
Daniel B. Martin wrote: I use Sevin only in the most desperate of situations. I prefer to hand-pick the BadGuys. Flea beetles are "smooshed" with fingers. Larger insects are dropped into a can of detergent solution. Eggplant pests in my garden include: - Flea Beetles - Colorado Potato Beetles, both adult and larvae - flat green guys (name unknown) which don't move much - Harlequin bugs - Stink bugs - Curculios - Mexican Bean Beetles Some gardeners have trouble with hornworms and slugs too. Daniel B. Martin That is my MO also, but I succombed to the nuclear WMD Raid as true dispair with my peppers. I use Sevin usually only once on very small eggplant plants, which gives them a growing start, and then I daily squish the flea beetles. Mine are doing well. I nipped that other critter in the bud that appeared from nowhere last summer. Potato beetle??? Looks like a swollen tan dog tick, and younger ones like "boogers". (Sorry.) ha ha These guys are voracious. Small green grasshoppers also take a share, but hop fast. I have pulled, in two different hordes a few weeks apart, over 150 each time, of a caterpillar that has attacked my brocolli, savoy cabbage, and curly kale.... into the soapy water pot along with the Japanese beetles. The eggs are a tiny flat spot of yellow on underside of leaves, and the biggest worms are about 1 inch long, yellow underneath, red head, and backs are lengthwise black, grey, white stripes. Anyone know what moth lays those eggs? (I don't know what the max size of the caterpillar would be, if allowed to live.) That cottage cheese container of water with a few drops of dishsoap pretty much takes care of every bad critter. Even those fuzzy white flies, if you hold it under the mass, so they they jump into the container, and not escape. Kira |
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New bugs + Eggplant Foliange
Kira Dirlik wrote:
Looks like a swollen tan dog tick, and younger ones like "boogers". Your description does sound like the larvae of the Colorado Potato Beetle. Good photo he http://www.uky.edu/Ag/kpn/colobtl.jpg Daniel B. Martin |
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New bugs + Eggplant Foliange
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 21:05:55 GMT, "Daniel B. Martin"
wrote: Kira Dirlik wrote: Looks like a swollen tan dog tick, and younger ones like "boogers". Your description does sound like the larvae of the Colorado Potato Beetle. Good photo he http://www.uky.edu/Ag/kpn/colobtl.jpg Daniel B. Martin That was the one that I found on the eggplants today! About 6 of them. The other one is very similar, but instead of the stripes, has a row of spots along each side.... and MANY babies. I saw that one only twice so far this summer. It just about devoured my eggplants last year before I discovered it. Kira |
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