Re: Losing Salvia officinalis

In a message dated 8/26/99 3:25:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
PolarisOn@aol.com writes:

> I examined the soil more carefully 
>  around where it had been, sigh, and there was a beady, pale yellow/beige 
> substance concentrated where the stalks emerged. It was a mealy, crumbly 
>  consistency but I could find nothing else. Ditto for the Lobelias (some of 
>  which are trying to survive, but are losing great stalks of blooms in the 
> identical stuff. These plants are nowhere near one another. Do you have any 
> idea as to what enemy is out there? 
Hi,
  sorry to intrude but I have had experience with boring insects that leave 
these residues around their entrance holes. Maybe you have them also?  This 
sounds like either the sap from the plant or the excrement from the insect 
that is actually doing the damage. IMHO.  Bruce

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