I hear they eat all the good bugs too - and then, when nothing is left, eat themselves and only the Biggest and Strongest is left. Better be a female and lay some legs, lol!
Weird Whitish/Yellowish Eggs?????
I might add - that was ALOT of work. I can't imagine having even MORE Brugs to spray down.
Are there any ideas of "preventing" aphids? also preventing spider mites? I have had so many problems with pests on Brugs - unlike any other plants I've grown. Feels like a full time job taking care of just a few. These plants are very hard to care for. There MUST be some ways to avoid these kinds of problems.
I use a powdered systemic called "Systemic Houseplant Insect Control" by Bonide. It takes a teaspoon or so for gallon size plants every six weeks. It smells a little until you get it watered in. Very inexpensive and no spraying necessary. Mine came from Home Depot, but I'm sure you can get it other places too.
Thank you! Will that help when I put the plants outside?
I generally don't use it in the summer because I water too often and it wouldn't last as long.
About the Bonide systemic product-
could you use this product on vegetables and citrus plants?
I don't think so. It says for Flowers and Ornamental Herbaceous Houseplants.
I believe Shirley is right. I wouldn't use it on anything you plan on eating - it is poison.
I just caught this thread.... IMHO the lizards are wonderful in the garden. I find miniature eggs (look just like a chicken egg but only 1/4" long) in pots, on benches...I treasure them. They are my bugeaters.
Interesting thread. Thanks
What is so horrid, is I started this thread last winter. I'd never experienced bad bugs before, besides spider mites on brugs and occasional fungus looking leaves.
THIS year has been terrible. But thanks to this thread, I have been able to identify the eggs. They told us on the news we'd have a big aphid infestation. Boy were they ever right. I neemed them again today. Once in awhile I even break down and spray malathion on the bugs themselves. But it never seems to end. The neem kills most of the aphids and larve and even eggs, which is good, but spraying all leaves, upside and down is hard to do - you miss some.
But slowly but surely, I've been using my armour and telling these pests they are not welcome here. It's alot of work, and thank goodness, from people here at Dave's, I was more prepared and able to handle it. My Nasturtians got shmeeeeeered last year by aphids that lay black eggs. Look at them this year. Neem works.
