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How can I get rid of fungus on my pepper plants?
There appears to be a long standing insect infestation, possiby whitefly (does anything rise up and fly about when you go near or disturb the plant?) or scale infestation of some sort. The leaves ...
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How can I get rid of fungus on my pepper plants?
Your close up leaf images show an aphid infestation. In my experience, this is a highly persistent insect that infests chili plants amongst others with over 500 different types of Aphids specific to ...
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Can I put aphid infested plants in the compost bin?
It shouldn't be an issue to add aphid-infested plant matter to your compost. If your heap gets up to the right temperature, they'll burn to death anyways. If they lay eggs, those eggs will probably be ...
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Can I put aphid infested plants in the compost bin?
You can put them straight on the compost heap - aphids suck sap from the plants,and once the plants start to die back and stop growing, they'll just leave anyway, they won't live on the compost heap.
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Can I use ladybug larvae to get rid of aphids?
The Planet Natural's website has good information about the problem. here is some information they have on the subject.
The common ladybug or lady beetle — every school kid’s favorite insect
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What are these tiny white spider-like bugs in my soil and on plants?
Long post..apologies in advance
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Are they moving? Specifically, are they jumping? {{shivers down spine}}
Jumping = Springtails (below)
No Movement = could be the caste exosteleton of ...
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Aphids in my Fuchsia
Aphids are always with us - they're flying insects and can affect indoor plants (especially in summer) as well as outdoor ones. Using a soapy water spray may well kill any which are currently present, ...
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What should I do about ants and aphids in my mint?
Some ant here and there might eat a dead aphid or two, but they seem to actually have a symbiotic relationship, more or less, with the ants using the aphids for sugar, which they actually make, ...
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How can I get rid of fungus on my pepper plants?
My method: take all peppers and flowers. Then put in the soil some "Actara". This should be enough to save the plant, and not to poison yourself.
Usually I take some pepper and I plant it again: they ...
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What disease does my Spinach have?
I'm not 100% sure because the black parts are blurry, but your "mold" looks suspiciously like aphids. I think I can see at least one specimen that's clear enough to see the legs (in the 2nd picture). ...
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Baby apple tree under attack by...aphids? What to do?
I will recommend some organic methods since I am not too familiar with chemicals you can spray on the apple tree. Depending on the amount of tree that is infected, you can try one ore more of the ...
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Best method of using lady bugs to prevent aphids
Ladybugs like to eat two things - some insects and pollen, so if you can plant around and about with plants that they'll like, that should help to not only attract them, but keep them around, so long ...
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Best method of using lady bugs to prevent aphids
Don't want to disuade you from trying but when a problematic bug explodes in number, they will never be quickly eradicated with a predator bug. Better to attend to conditions that caused the aphid ...
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Can I put aphid infested plants in the compost bin?
When I have an aphid infestation outpacing my ladybugs, I use my homemade pesticide spray of Dawn, water, and baking soda. (1 gallon water, 2 teaspoons Dawn, 4 teaspoons baking soda) Good for insects ...
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Need help determining houseplant's problem
You've got a scale insect infestation rather than aphids; this question and its answer is relevant Indoor plant is looking sickly
although it's in regard to a different plant. It would be good to ...
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Baby apple tree under attack by...aphids? What to do?
Totally aphids, probably being cultivated, feed and protected by ants. I think that is so amazing. Anyhoo, the Neem should work and please spray at night. Not during the day, no matter what the ...
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What are these bugs and spots on my Chilli Plant
I am from Kerala, India.
When I faced this problem, I started using heat gun (I used Ingco Cordless heat gun) for physical destruction of these bugs.
First aim the gun to the bugs, they will fall down....
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Will rubbing alcohol make my basil inedible?
Isopropyl alcohol acts as a desiccant and melts the wax that is some insects bodies.
It also evaporates so very little remains. It is not absorbed by the plant and washing with water after you ...
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Please help me identify these white spots/area on my kale leaves
Looks like a combination of whiteflies and early-stage white mildew
infection to me. I usually get both when I try to grow kale in Seattle, but
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Pomegranate aphids or something else
I would do a Neem dunk. Paper plate sliced to the middle to go around the base of the plant and stop the soil from falling out...turn upside down and swish in the Neem mixture. Turn right side up ...
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Why would my goji berry plant in California get sick and full of aphids?
I wouldn't bother with insecticides for aphids, although they could get rid of them, probably. I recommend getting a shower nozzle for your hose and showering the foliage every two or three days. ...
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Can Nicotiana alata be used as an aphid "honeypot"?
First of all, my experience with Nicotiana alata only involves trapping Trialeurodes vaporariorum because my other plants didn't get aphids or mites (yet).
In spring I have received four 6-inch (15 ...
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My Ivy with sticky shiny substance on leaves
You need to get rid off the aphids.
The sticky substance is called honeydew and is secreted by the aphids when they suck the plant sap and it contains sugars, which is why it’s sticky.
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How to control onion aphids in aquaponics?
This is a provisional and untested answer. Claims with some scientific trials as data do show that the pest load on plants is reduced with the use of foliar sprays of actively aerated compost tea (...
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Best method of using lady bugs to prevent aphids
Aphids like many insects go for the weakest plant they can see. So, if you have a raised bed of differing plants, you'll find that the aphids will target the weak plants and leave the strongest alone....
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What is the name of this aphid?
These are thrip. The adults are black and the size of an exclamation mark. The larvae live inside the leaf and produce the silvery mottling that you see on the leaves. The adults will produce black ...
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Bugs on mint leaves
Looks like a black bean aphid . I usually make a solution of soft soap and water, around 7 parts water 1 part soap. You can also add some paprika or something rather spicy to it, but that's not ...
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White mold or insects on magic basil plant
If its Ocimum sanctum, common name Holy Basil, you won't be eating that I assume - it does look like its infested with mealybug/scale insect, and the fact you are not eating the plant widens the ...
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Ants are farming aphids on my cherry blossom
I’ll note that the ants are only there because of the aphids. I’d recommend you focus on the removal of the aphids. Once the aphids are gone, the ants will leave.
If you can refrain from spraying ...
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Why do my Roma tomatoes look like this?
In an effort to close this discussion, I noticed that my tomatoes that grew in contact with the concrete below them (have only a small plot of dirt and they grew over onto the cement) had blotchy ...
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