Re: Nasturtium and Four O'Clocks
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Nasturtium and Four O'Clocks
- From: B* W*
- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 08:51:15 -0500
>The bugs weren't on anything else in the pot and I
>haven't seen them since I stopped growing nasturtiums -- which almost makes
>me believe that they materialize out of the seeds themselves! I've never
>had an aphid eat holes in anything. They just leave a sticky mess.
>
>I was just curious as to what they were. Could it be a pest that attacks
>some veggies?
>
My two cents worth--in Illinois in mid-to late-summer, we visit relatives
and can rarely eat outside without little, round, tiny, black bugs
materializing from "nowhere" and attacking the food. We have never figured
this out but it sounds like the same pests!
Bob, Linda, and "Jake Divine"
NE Kansas
Zone 6a
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