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Small black flying beetles
Yesterday I got swarms of small beetles (?) in the garden. They're about 1
to 1.5 mm long, black wing cases (the wings seem to protude out of the back of the cases, but my eyes aren't what they were!). They like my helianthemum flowers and seem to snip off the petals shortly after new flowers open with the result that a very bright and cheerful plant now has no flowers! They are abolutely mad about rocket flowers though, there are thousands of them on a couple of clumps. Anyone any ideas? TIA. p.s. Just been out in the garden and there are thousands of them in a lily flower thats just opened. -- Regards, Charles cthorp at globalnet dot co dot uk "I really cannot tolerate intolerance" |
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Small black flying beetles
Dont know what they are, but they got onto my cabbage produce. If you try
to catch one, it seems to jump away. I sprayed them with a good insect spray that had, and now they are gone. The spray sayss you can use it up to 8 hours of harvesting. Dwayne "Charles Thorpe" wrote in message ... Yesterday I got swarms of small beetles (?) in the garden. They're about 1 to 1.5 mm long, black wing cases (the wings seem to protude out of the back of the cases, but my eyes aren't what they were!). They like my helianthemum flowers and seem to snip off the petals shortly after new flowers open with the result that a very bright and cheerful plant now has no flowers! They are abolutely mad about rocket flowers though, there are thousands of them on a couple of clumps. Anyone any ideas? TIA. p.s. Just been out in the garden and there are thousands of them in a lily flower thats just opened. -- Regards, Charles cthorp at globalnet dot co dot uk "I really cannot tolerate intolerance" |
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Small black flying beetles
In message , Charles Thorpe
writes Yesterday I got swarms of small beetles (?) in the garden. They're about 1 to 1.5 mm long, black wing cases (the wings seem to protude out of the back of the cases, but my eyes aren't what they were!). Possibly pollen beetles. Round here they start appearing when the rape is in flower and then move on to assorted garden plants as the rape runs to seed. Sweet peas are a favourite:-( They also seem very keen on anything that is yellow........ and are quite happy to swarm on items of yellow washing when it's hung out to dry. Jill -- http://www.bellsbarn.demon.co.uk (Gardens, geraniums and photographs) |
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