HOLES !!!

[pompeydude]

Hello all,
i have some small holes appearing in the leaves of my chilli's in the greenhouse.  i can never find anything on the plants or the ground around them. what can they be ?

also is derris and Bordeaux suitable for the organic garden ? and when and  were can they be used?

Phill


;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[pompeydude]

[MrsKP]

Ditto here!

watching with interest!

???

[amphibian]

I find the culprit is normally a catterpillar/maggot, they have been cropping up the last few years, tiny little green threads, they hide well by sticking two leaves together, or folding the edge of a leaf over, they eventually spin a cocoon if not caught sooner.

I have no idea what they are, but this year the same critters have been atatcking my blueberries and tomatoes, with these they even eat into the fruits, they don't seem to stay inside, just eat a hole in one side and out the other.

They are very small, only 4mm long by 1mm wide, and pale green. Their leaf sticking antics are often very covert, such as sticking a leaf to one above it, so when looking down they appear just to be overlapping fairly normally.

I have squished about five this year, they never seem to reach particularly damaging levels, just nibbble holes in leaves, damage a few fruit and then disappear.

[MrsKP]

hmmmmmmmmmm  8)

thanks

;D

[saddad]

I've got those on the tips of my sweet potato slips... not a happy bunny...
>:(

[valmarg]

Amphibian, could us dozy old WW2 tarts have a translation, 4mm x 1mm means nothing.  What's that in yards, feet and inches, roughly??

[MrsKP]

3/4" long by skinny !   ;D

[weedbusta]

8) you're a mathematician too.

[MrsKP]

i've got a "rough" foot in both camps.   :P

[Robert_Brenchley]

4mm is about 1/6 inch, not 3/4.

[MrsKP]

maybe i'm thinking cms  ;D