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Don't be to hard on yourself bamaboy, you did what you has to do to stop 'whatever' was destroying your babies! The "beneficial bugs" are collateral damage, so to speak. If the 'bad bugs' can come back after being killed...the same should apply with the 'good bugs'.

Sevin is made to be used on edible plants..maybe you might have put more than the epa, fda or whomever says to use, but you shook it off and didnt just let it sit there for days. In a perfect world, there would be no bugs that eat leaves or our peppers etc.

Apparently those "beneficial bugs" were slackin and not doing their 'job' or else you wouldn't have started this post and I (and others) wouldn't have had similar issues and someone wouldn't be selling sevin dust.

Amoung the dead bugs were a few (2) ladybugs....I'm sure I didn't flip the whole ecosystem up on it's ear over my dusting. Same with you. Hope you have a bug free garden from here on out ;)

From the looks of yours, maybe word will spread in the bug world that bamaboy don't play games..he will dust ur azz if u attack his peppers :lol: :flamethrower:
 
By zapping, you mean bug zapper? Would that be a good idea for me, and do centipedes or Millipedes damage plant leaves or just the roots of them?
 
Ok, today I actually caught a millipede on a leaf. Some of the plants have curled wilted bubbly looking leaves. They are also drying out. One is really bad looking (the whole plant). Is this a bug problem or over watering. It has rained a lot here too and my automatic sprinklers have been running and I forgot about it for 2 weeks or so. This is the bed that I SevIn Dusted like a fool too. I know I over did it but it too said it was veggie friendly (when used as directed, I know!). I just need to see if there is a way to save them. I am not going to water them for 2 to 3 days, but keep an eye on them to see if they improve or not. I just don't want to get to the last hour of their lives before I try to save them. This is so frustrating right now, need some help please! I wish I could find someone that lives close that look at them to give some help. If I missed a word or spelled something wrong it is because I am on my IPhone and it sucks to type on.
 
LOL! I'm so confused! Centipedes are a predator they eat other bugs, millipedes eat dead plant matter, Millipedes are detritivores and slow moving. Most millipedes eat decaying leaves and other dead plant matter, moisturising the food with secretions and then scraping it in with their jaws. However, they can also be minor garden pests, especially in greenhouses where they can cause severe damage to emergent seedlings. Signs of millipede damage include the stripping of the outer layers of a young plant stem and irregular damage to leaves and plant apices, the very top of a plant. Google is a wonderful thing, sometimes....

I used a bug zapper for moths and it worked, when I found Lacewings in the zapper I stopped using it.
 
Prehensile said:
LOL! I'm so confused! Centipedes are a predator they eat other bugs, millipedes eat dead plant matter, Millipedes are detritivores and slow moving. Most millipedes eat decaying leaves and other dead plant matter, moisturising the food with secretions and then scraping it in with their jaws. However, they can also be minor garden pests, especially in greenhouses where they can cause severe damage to emergent seedlings. Signs of millipede damage include the stripping of the outer layers of a young plant stem and irregular damage to leaves and plant apices, the very top of a plant. Google is a wonderful thing, sometimes....
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I don't welcome any of the "pedes" in my garden. If I see one it is treated like slugs, snails, earwigs, bud worm and any other pest.
 
Ok, had the University Of Tennessee Extension Dept guy, in our county, take a look at my plants. He noticed flea beetles #1
cabbage loopers and aphids. He said the Sevin would take care of the flea beetles, but not the aphids or cabbage loopers.
He said for the loopers to use cyfluthrin (baythroid, decathlon and tempo brands) and for the aphids malathion (bonide or cythion brands) He is sending his 'report' and pics to the 'lab' (main campus in Knoxville I'm assuming) to have them check and give a final say :pray: !!

Most of the people around us have been confused because they haven't had any problems with their peppers...jalapenos and cayennes. My Biker Billy Jalapenos are fine! Apparently these POS bugs have a taste for the strains of peppers you don't normally find around here....lucky me :mope:

He also noted a few dead ladybugs...I said they were executed for allowing these 'bad' bugs to do so much damage in the first place! So as a message to other ladybugs/beneficial bugs to step it up...they got dusted!! I got a 'she musta forgot her meds' look :crazy: :cool:

Hey bamaboy, he also asked if we had any hail since setting them out, because on some it just looks like holes he's seen caused by hail. I said no. I'm not sure if you have where u live, just thought I'd run that by ya.



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"excessive"? I don't know, never used it or heard of it. Getting rid of the bugs destroying the plants is my only concern. I'm sure it's 'ok' to use on my plants or else he wouldn't have suggested it.
 
Go natural when you can. I grew up in Winnipeg, and Malathion was used there for mosquito spraying. When it was used people were supposed to stay indoors, and not lets their pets out. Here is some more info from a scientific source:

Health Effects

All organophosphates, including malathion, are highly toxic to insects, animals and humans. Malathion’s acute LD50 for rats (the amount of a chemical required to kill 50% of a test population) ranges between 1522mg and 1945mg/kg of body weight. To equate this measure with humans, a dose of approximately 5 oz. would be fatal to a 70 kg, chemically-sensitive human.

Malathion is mutagenic, carcinogenic[7], has been implicated in vision loss, kidney damage[8], and lung damage.[9] It has been shown to cause DNA abnormalities[10] [11], and has been linked to child leukemia, aplastic anemia and adult leukopenia.[12] Acute (short term) effects of malathion include headaches, nausea, dizziness, salivation, tearing, urination, diarrhea, convulsions, muscle weakness, incoordination, abdominal cramps, blurred vision, pupil constriction, abnormal eye movement, slowed heart beat, depressed respiratory system, skeletal muscle damage, paralysis and coma.[13] [14] [15] Studies on quail and rabbit have indicated that the acute danger from malathion exposure may be much higher if inhaled: they showed that AChE inhibition was 15 to 20 times greater from an inhaled dose of malathion as compared to an oral dose.

Malathion can also have a significant effect on intestinal health. One study showed that pregnant woman who had been exposed to aerial spraying of malathion during their second trimester gave birth to children with 2.5 times more gastrointestinal disorders.[16] Lab studies on rats have shown that a single exposure can severely impair the healthy functioning of the intestine.[17]
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Taken from: http://www.sierraclub.ca/national/programs/health-environment/pesticides/malathion-fact-sheet.shtml
 
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