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Growing => Vegetables => Topic started by: Townie on July 07, 2009, 06:57:51 pm

Title: Beastie ID Please
Post by: Townie on July 07, 2009, 06:57:51 pm

Well they weren't there last night and now I have big green and brown beasties and they have brought their kids with them all over my broad beans.. are they friend or foe?

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Title: Re: Beastie ID Please
Post by: Fluffywelshsheep on July 07, 2009, 07:16:57 pm

the green ones are aphids but not sure what the brown /black ones are.

Linz

You can spray them with diluted washing up liquid or just pick/squish them off quite common on broadbeans

You might get ants as well as they like the 'milk' them

Linz

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLtUk-W5Gpk)

Title: Re: Beastie ID Please
Post by: Townie on July 07, 2009, 07:27:03 pm

Thanks Linz.... the youtube vid is a bit gruesome tho' couldnt watch it all LOL

I'm away outside to get my son to pick them off and squish them, I was going to get some ants from the front garden path where they are living inbetween one of the slabs, neighbours might think i've lost the plot tho  ;)

Title: Re: Beastie ID Please
Post by: Townie on July 07, 2009, 08:24:53 pm

Just been up the garden and given all my broad bean plants a liberal dusting of diatomaceous earth, hopefully it will do the trick... if it can kill worms and lice on chickens, surely it will kill these wierd looking things...war of the worlds comes to mind  :D

Title: Re: Beastie ID Please
Post by: doganjo on July 07, 2009, 08:33:12 pm

Thanks, Sarah - never thought of that - will do the same.

Title: Re: Beastie ID Please
Post by: northfifeduckling on July 10, 2009, 11:11:22 pm

I always thought that ants and greenflies/blackflies live in symbiosis - you have ants, you get greenflies and the other way round? You don't really want either of them! It's ladybirds you need, esp. ladybird larvae, they munch them up in no time. Washing up liquid solution's good. :&>