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Re: white bugs on my squashes, please help

A good source of organic garden products and pest controlling products
can be found in the Gardens Alive! catalog ((812) 537-8650)? I sent for
this catalog a few weeks ago and when it came it had a free $20 coupon
that you could use for anything in the catalog, no need to buy anything
extra...(of course I did!). You should also get a copy of this months
Organic Gardening magazine, they have an article dedicated to
controlling garden pests. It is very informative and they even give
pictures and brief descriptions of some of the more typical pests. Your
pest does sound like the whitefly which they describe as tiny, powdery
white, moth-like insects. They suggest using insecticidal soap or
horticultural oil, yellow sticky traps and even vacuuming them off the
plants! Hope this helps.

Richard (Brooklyn,NY zone6)
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From: Kurt McCullum
To: Multiple recipients of list SQFT
Subject: Re: white bugs on my squashes, please help
Date: Tuesday, April 22, 1997 11:58AM


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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