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Char
Joined: 24 Apr 2006
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Location: Carmarthenshire
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 Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:23 am Post subject: Tiny Black Bugs |
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Hi all,
I have grown a sweet pepper plant from seed and have been keeping it inside on the kitchen windowsill.
It is just flowering and I can see the tiny green peppers in the middle of the flowers.
However, there are some very tiny black bugs on some of the leaves. They seem to be eating the leaves and there is some cobwebby type stuff on one of the stalks.
Does anyone have any idea what they are and how I can get rid of them?
Thanks 
Charlotte |
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crazypianolady
Joined: 26 Mar 2008
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Location: Nottinghamshire
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Might it be blackfly? We use dilute washing up liquid in a spray bottle. Kills the bugs but doesn't harm the plant.
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Char
Joined: 24 Apr 2006
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Location: Carmarthenshire
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I don't think they are 
They don't look like the blackfly I have seen in pictures.
They are so so tiny they are hard to see and I can't see legs or wings on them or anything. They just look like little black dots really. |
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kated
Joined: 01 Nov 2006
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Location: norfolk
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| Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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| The cobwebby stuff is typical for red spider mite which love pepper leaves. The best thing for that is copious spraying with just water. Get a mister and do it three times a day for about 5 days and it will probably see them off. Be sure to mist both sides of all the leaves. I've just gone through this problem with my lemon tree and luckily found an old poster with all the garden and house plant bug problems on it and this is what it advised doing. Certainly seems to be doing the trick with the lemon tree. |
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Char
Joined: 24 Apr 2006
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Location: Carmarthenshire
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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| That's brilliant, thanks! Will try that and hopefully it will work... |
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benfish
Joined: 21 Apr 2008
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Location: Cambridge
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| Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 9:32 am Post subject: Blackfly |
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Just another thought; this is harvest time and there are huge numbers of Thrips flying of the cereal crops when cut. They get everywhere. One even got behind my flatscreen monitor!
They are very small and resemble your description. A wash or spray wil shift them. |
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