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Comment by Sharon Morgan on May 7, 2013 at 3:27pm

Gosh...I have had it in my garden...I can't think of the name right now. I sprayed them with insecticidal soap and got rid of it. Thought of it...Spittle bug. To me it looks like foamy spit on the plant.

Comment by Linda Damiano on February 27, 2013 at 8:39pm

I also am having a problem brought a plant in from the yard in September or October it was fine up until a week ago with cottony material on it. I sprayed it with Neem Oil my neighbor mixed for me. Still have the white cottony and spreading any ideas what to do?

Comment by Jane Shapiro on July 13, 2012 at 8:48pm

I am finding white cottony material on many of my plants.  Is it whitefly?

Comment by Susan Tilghman Hawthorne on July 12, 2012 at 9:59am

I don't have extra blenders hanging around. But at Baker's forum I found a recipe using salad oil, dish soap (not antibacterial), water and hot sauce. I used it yesterday and saw no bugs this morning. I sprayed again this morning and will continue to do so for the next few days.

Comment by Kim Beall on July 11, 2012 at 11:06pm

Lindsay, I like your bait ideas! My interest is in trapping possums and raccoons (the main predators that plague my hens and their eggs) and these are good ideas that will attract the varmints and NOT all the neighborhood cats (including my own!) Trapping them may not harm them, but it definitely makes it infinitely harder to catch the critters I really AM after (a trap that already contains a cat is kind of useless in catching varmints!)

My own "voice of experience" notes on live-trapping: 

Call your local Animal Control department to find out where THEY release healthy wild animals for relocation.  The last thing you want to do is make your problem into someone else's.  Just dumping them off near a farm is otherwise known as "being a really bad neighbor"!

Do NOT get the cheapest trap you can find.  Get a real Havahart - these have solid sheet-metal doors and a nice, solid metal plate around the handle, which protect your hands when you carry the trap, and when you open it to release your critter.

Always wear good gloves (men's work gloves, not those stupid, wimpy, useless "ladies" gardening gloves!) and long jeans and sturdy shoes when handling wild animals.

If the animal you trapped appears to be sick, overly hostile, or otherwise "not quite right" somehow, don't hesitate to call Animal Control.  That is what they are there for, and they WANT to know these things.  Aside from rabies, they are also tracking distemper ("the Other Rabies") and other diseases that common mammalian vectors may carry.

Comment by Vicky Myers on July 11, 2012 at 10:58pm

Yep 1/2 cup of beetles. Blend in a blender you never plan to use for food ever again.

Comment by Kim Beall on July 11, 2012 at 10:56pm

Comment by Kim Beall on July 11, 2012 at 10:54pm

Comment by Susan Tilghman Hawthorne on July 11, 2012 at 4:58pm

1/2 cup of beetles??

Comment by Vicky Myers on July 11, 2012 at 3:34pm

Dr Myles Bader says to employ ladybugs and lacewings to eat their eggs. Also mix Nc nematodes into seed furrows & into mulch around plants. Hand pick and squish squish squish. Garlic, radishes,potatoes, or clove around the bean plants repels them.

Identification: they are 1/4 inch long, reddish with black spots and a small  black head. Pic shows spots to be squarish. Lay their eggs on leaves & their larva will enter the soil to feed on plant roots, only adults eat leaves.

Jerry Baker says you can blend up 1/2 cup of beetles, 2 cups water and 1tsp dish soap. Strain add to a 2 gal bucket of water pour all around and spray on plants. Spray 1/4 cup of juice to 1 gal water.

Also put cloth down if you are tired of finding them to squish and shake plant gather them up and throw into soapy water bucket.

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