Re: White flies...
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- Subject: Re: White flies...
- From: T*
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 05:45:39 -0400
On 9/12/99 3:03 PM Jeaa1224@aol.com (Jeaa1224@aol.com) said:
>Thanks for the advice. Do you garden in the midwest too? Do you encounter
>the white flies often and on lots of different types of plants? Wouldn't the
>jelly also
>nab the good guys? Left on their own, will they do damage and tend to also
>return
>next year? Is it the dry summer that causes this infestation...the plants
>are
>doing well and don't seem stressed at all. Does anyone else have any
>experience with these pests or home remedies?
Supposedly the whiteflies are attracted to yellow, so the good guys seem
to be spared. Several years ago the whiteflies moved to almost all my
dozens of tropical hibiscus. They did this while I was spraying them w/
dishwashing detergent, Orthene, Murphy's Oil Soap, Diazinon, Cygon, etc.
I finally bought an electric fogger and continued the battle with that
delivery system. Spraying every few days to upset their reproductive
cycle is important. Don't forget the underside of the leaves.
Eventually, Sun Oil's Ultrafine Oil (in the fogger) seemed to just about
stop them. Then we had a February frost (St Pete/Tampa area) and that
seemed to kill them off ---- and a substantial number of my hibiscus, too.
Tom Miller
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