Topic: white fly

[diggerrick]

hi. whats the best way to get rid of white fly from my brassicas? and can they do any harm to the plants?  i seem to have a swarm of them when i shake the plants. cheers rick

[saddad]

Almost imposible... but don't often do too much damage...  :-X

[kimbobill]

I read on another site that someone used pure soap, place it in water let it soften then drain the water off and then I sprayed it on all the greens. It had no effect that day but the following day no white fly! That was 2 days ago and I am going up tomorrow to see if it's still working

[strawberry1]

my brassicas were covered in them yesterday, I have used soap in the past but it is a temporary measure. I am not going to bother myself at the moment as my broccoli are good and strong and my cabbages have good solid hearts. I am hoping that the swarm reduces over winter. Mybe next year I will try dusting with diatomaceous earth

[Easywriter]

Hi

My curly kale are riddled with them. Leaves look very healthy on top, but look underneath and there are what appear to be whitlefly eggs, millions of them [well, lots anyway].

Cabbage also has clouds of whitefly, but they don't seem to like laying their eggs on that, and I don't think they actually do any harm.

Going to try ultra-fine netting [won't even let whitelfly through] next year.

 :)