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Re: white bugs on my squashes, please help

Joyce,
I don't know what they are but I had them last year and they destroyed
all my plants.  I'd also like to know what they are.
diana

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>From:  Joyce Gerber[SMTP:jgerber@TERMINUS.COM]
>Sent:  April 22, 1997 9:22 AM
>To:    Multiple recipients of list SQFT
>Subject:       white bugs on my squashes, please help
>
>Hi, guys,
>
>My name is Joyce Gerber and I have been lurking for a week or two now. I
>live in central coastal California (just north of Pt. Conception, several
>miles in from the Pacific coast).   I have several raised beds in which I've
>been attempting the square foot method for two years.  One has various
>veggies and herbs, and another on the other side of the house has just
>curcurbits - various squashes and cantaloupe.  I have yet to get the
>watering thing down right, but I've been taking notes from posts on the list
>lately.
>
>ANyway, I'm writing with an infant hollering in a backpack on my back, and a
>toddler calling me : -0 so I'll make this fast. I have tiny (just larger
>than pinhead-sized) very white bugs on the bottom of my squash leaves.  They
>hop.  I lost my squash to some fuzzy white stuff last year, and don't want
>to lose them again!
>
>The bugs look like tiny stealth bombers - sort of wedge shaped.
>
>Any ideas about what they are and an organic way to deal with them?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Joyce
>
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