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Re[2]: Flea Beetles on Brassicas

     The best thing that I have found for flea beetles is row cover.  They 
     are a problem in their small hopping state when my mizuna, beet and 
     other greens are young and tender.
     
     The big square mommas leave holes in my eggplants but they are slow 
     and easy to hand pick.
     
     Esther


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Subject: Re: Flea Beetles on Brassicas
Author:  Olin Miller <millero@worldnet.att.net> at SMTPlink-USIS1
Date:    4/27/97 9:49 PM


Duncan McAlpine wrote:
> 
> How do you control or kill flea beetles (Phyllotreta species)on
> Brassicas (cabbage, turnip, swede, radish, salad rocket, wallflower, 
> alyssum and Crambe...etc.)
     
Because of their ability to jump quickly away from the plant, flea 
beetles are difficult to control.  One IPM approach is too keep the 
garden area free of harvest debris, interplant brassicas among onions, 
lettuce, and repel with garlic spray.  If you really must kill them 
you'll probably have to resort to chemicals.    Pyrethrins and rotenone 
are sometimeys used but they're pretty wide spectrum as is carbaryl 
(Sevin) used on much if not most supermarket produce.  There's also a 
fungus called Naturalis-O but I'm not sure I'd use it on young 
seedlings.
     
Olin Miller <millero@worldnet.att.net>
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