Re: Colorado potato beetle?
- Subject: Re: [SG] Colorado potato beetle?
- From: J*
- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 20:56:25 -0500
At 20:46 06/18/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>I think this is what is eating my tall nicotiana that I so carefully grew
>from seed. The body is yellow with black stripes (or black with yellow
>stripes) and the head is red. This bug is definitely gnawing on leaves. I am
>unable to catch it by hand but would like to stop it before it prevents my
>plants from flowering, in the least toxic way. Any suggestions?
>
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Hi Nancy
I had an CPB last year on my Nicotiana also. I just knocked them off into a
pail
of soapy water, every night... for a very long time it seems... but I grow them
to attract the Hummers in September when they are migrating south... but people
told me that I could of spray with liquid Sevin and that would have take care of
them... or used a residual dust of some kind. They where every where... and
very
ugly looking things.
Jennifer Bishop
Zone 3
Winnipeg, MB CA (where it is raining yet again!)
