abulldog said:Litte green bugger all over the underside of the leaves os some plants and a few in the couple of flowers I have. What is the best way to get rid of them?
scarpetti said:I keep saying this! Just a few squirts of DAWN dish soap mixed with water in a spray bottle. I use a 20 oz spray bottle. Put the water in first then the dish soap, mildly shake it to mix it up. Spray in the evening so the SUN doesn't dry it out. It suffocates them!!! It's never burned my plants. You can also use DAWN to get the oil off sea birds if an oil tanker happens to rupture in your area. That's what the wife uses where she volunteers.
LGHT said:Just get some lady bugs. I tried the soap, neem, diatomaceous earth, and they all helped and prevented the spread, but didn't get rid of them. I guess because even if you miss a single one they will come back. If you have 50+ plants like I do you will be spraying daily and even then still won't be sure to get them all or just drop $7.00 on 1500 lady bugs and be done with it. I was spraying for a month plus and seem to have gotten rid of them in a few days with the lady bugs. It's been over a week and I can still go out and find hundreds of them living on the pepper plants not including the larvae that I found. The bug that just keeps on killing!