harlequin bugs
kohelet
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Kimmsr
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Harlequin Bugs - need help quick!
Comments (7)I had the same problem. But since I have my garden in my back yard, it was easy for me to just spend a few minutes a day picking them off. I just crush them with my fingers. I've killed hundreds, and finally have them under control... I have not seen many the past few days. Part of what I did was to really prune many of the leaves off of my plants, so to make the bug inspections easier to do. Also keep an eye out for their egg clusters... they look like tiny cylinders, tan-and-black. If you don't care about plants I would pull them out as you said. Otherwise they will multiply quickly....See MoreHow to get rid of Harlequin Bug
Comments (4)I tried this and then confirmed it from another website: Spray them with a mixture of water and Dawn dishwashing liquid. You have to drench them directly so you might have to come back for another treatment, but it does killed them (by suffocation?). Labor intensive but not as bad as hand picking them off of the plant....See MoreHarlequin Bugs YUCK!!
Comments (7)I use the caveman selective organic method .I take a yogurt tub of soapy water and a cup of coffee. I drink the coffee and pick the little buggers and throw them in the tub. When the coffee is done , I am done. I check back in the evening with a glass of Ice tea and a tub of soapy water. Three days later there are just a few bugs, SO FAR. I keep looking and picking one or 6 on my trips out. I am especially gleeful when there is a coitus interuptus. I keep a tub of soapy water out there to throw the occasional bug into. Today I will dump the evidence of my mass slaughter into the bushes....See MoreHarlequin Bugs invading our garden
Comments (1)I have been 3 years fighting these things with dish liquid, garlic, capsicum and any other spray some one would mention. THey came in a load of wood I had delivered (for fire, half a semi load) so your comment about wood rings true, they must breed in it or something. Any way some one even told me to sqash some in water, leave for 24 hours in warm. strain, dilute and spray ( think it was this lady's book by a Jackie French) sort of a homeopathic solution, treat like with like. Did that no good. Any way I did not want to use commercial spray as I consume my plants. My father, old market gardener, had been telling me to use pyrethrum spray and it's safe etc. Well at wits end, read the label, one day holding, I waited about 4, but by gee it worked. I will repsray when they build up again or their life cycle dictates, I expect another hatching soon. Any way give the pyrethrum a go, I actually sorry I didn't do it sooner. Can get it in garden section of Coles or Safeway made up in spray bottles. Hit them hard. I don't know if one can get it in a concentrated form and dilute as required or not. Good Luck Casper...See Morebooliebumpskie
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