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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: antipodes on July 23, 2010, 13:26:52

Title: tiny black beetles on my pak choy!
Post by: antipodes on July 23, 2010, 13:26:52
making holes in the leaves! Does anyone know what this might be and how to treat it? they are about the size of a pinhead.
Title: Re: tiny black beetles on my pak choy!
Post by: Old Central on July 23, 2010, 13:51:18
Sounds like flea beetle which seems to be endemic to many allotment sites.

We tried various protective measures but have concluded that pak choy with or without holes tastes pretty much the same.

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Title: Re: tiny black beetles on my pak choy!
Post by: antipodes on July 23, 2010, 14:30:26
bu**er! Will they eat it all, or just make holes in the outer leaves? Funny how it doesn't seem to affect other brassicas???
Title: Re: tiny black beetles on my pak choy!
Post by: Old Central on July 23, 2010, 14:46:18
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/Profile.aspx?pid=510

They just seem to leave loads of little pin holes in the leaf. It can look quite drastic and seems to reduce the plants vigour when young. The RHS link suggests that they grow out of it, the plants not the beetles!

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