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WHITE FLIES
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:40 pm
by Compo
Our bungalow is plagued with white flies around it, we even found some living and breeding indoors, small white chrysalis living under a carpet) they appear to be bigger than the vegetable white flies and are currently centreing around my home compost bin outside.........does anyone else have this experience? if so what are they and can we deal with them or should we just put up and shut up?
Compo
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:43 pm
by Compo
Anyone got any ideas on this one? they are getting worse!!!
Compo
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 11:30 pm
by peter
Compo, a picture might aid diagnosis.
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:16 pm
by Compo
Have tried to take one Peter but they are quite small, just a bit bigger than the typical whitefly that we get on brassicas etc, and their movement is similar sort of a flea type hop....
Compo
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:30 pm
by peter
In that case I would advise a visit to the library and the Biggest Illustrated Book that Compo can find on British Insects.
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:58 pm
by Compo
Well I reckon if i want to get used to them I probably have to use something noxious anyhow so I might just have to put up and shut up!!!
Thanks Peter
Compo
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:38 am
by Primrose
We seem to have them too and I suspect the recent mild weather has just encouraged a jumbo species to come along. In desperation I've used an aerosol fly spray indoors a reasonable distance from my basil plants. This has certainly had the effect of making them drop like flies but their corpses leave a horrible sticky substance on whatever surfaces they fall on. I've also tried spraying all the leaves of plants until they're dripping with water. That helps temporarily but the little blighters always seem to regenerate themselves so I'm afraid I don't have a permanent solution for you.
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 10:25 pm
by Compo
I don't have a permanent solution either, however, I have brought a 'green spray' that has fatty acids in it, have blasted the inside of the compost bin a few times and they seem to be subsiding, for now at least, I think I will have to keep spraying!!
Compo
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 8:24 am
by Weed
These sound like two different things..
The ones under the carpet may well be carpet moth...if so these lay their eggs in a carpet and the lavae feed on any natural fibres within the carpet backings..they will need several treatments to erradicate.
White fly, as in plants, I have in abundance on the allotment...my project for this year is to minimise the pest