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    Don't nuke them

    found out something interesting last night from scientific Daughter. While doing the greenfly search I found these brown ones on the underside of the pepper leaves. They are greenfly that have been parasitized by a tiny parasitic wasp and should be left alone to reproduce. Yet another biological pest control, the overfly larvae are just moving in as well!!

    I think that there might be one of the wasps in the top left of the picture.
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    Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet
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    Man im itching just looking at the little critters ( brrrrr )

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      If you enlarge the photo in the lower right there are two tiny overfly larvae, the white grub things.
      Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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        Just reviving this thread for the newbies. Found the first hover fly Lavae today. Now perhaps the greenfly will be under control!
        Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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          are the white things not just whitefly? If they're hoverfly larvae I've killed thousands of them!!

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            I get you a better picture of a hover fly Lavae, those were tiny babies.
            Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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            • #7
              Originally posted by vixylix View Post
              are the white things not just whitefly? If they're hoverfly larvae I've killed thousands of them!!
              Hoverfly larvae start off as tiny white, yellow or orange maggots crawling around among the aphids. The hoverfly maggots suck the innards out of the aphids. Empty aphid skins will be left behind.

              The parasitic wasps which prey on certain types of aphid can be mistaken for miniature gnats/mosquitoes. They don't tend to be coloured - mostly black - and their body is no bigger than a worker ant and often quite a bit smaller because it was small enough to have been curled up inside an aphid before bursting out, just like the Alien film.

              Ladybird larvae remind me of black alligators with a few specks of orange colouration here and there.

              Lacewing larvae remind me of pale greenish or pale brownish hairy alligators with earwig pincers on the front, sometimes with aphids stuck on the hairs to help confuse ants guarding aphid colonies.

              On my fruit trees, if I look closely, I tend to find more hoverfly larvae than all other predators combined.
              However, the most numerous predators I have for woolly apple aphid are the tiny parasitic wasps.
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                Sorry i cant find and today to photograph but most of the Greenfly have gone
                Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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