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Re: white bugs on my squashes, please help

In a message dated 97-04-22 11:24:55 EDT, you write:

<<  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

They sound like white flies. They will sit on the underside of your leaves
and eat them. I am in Southern California and I had white flies last year
which seemed to like my lettuce and radishes. I bought some spray to kill
them but it didn't help. Plus I did't like the idea of spraying lettuce
leaves which I was going to eat. This year I have not seen a single white fly
in my garden so I am crossing my fingers. I have not tried the following but
I have read several articles which says it works. White flies are attracted
to the color yellow. Several of the catalogs I have (Which I don't have in
front of me, Sorry) sell yellow cards and a sticky paste which you put on
them. The flies jump on the sticky yellow card and get stuck there. When the
yellow paper is filled just throw it away. I have not tried this but I am
going to if I get the white flies again this year.

Kurt

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