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Id this insect in my cucumbers
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Nandy_temp Charlotte, nc (
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Wed, Jun 20, 12 at 18:20
I have find this insect in my cucumber plants and it is not alone, he has many friend over. Can anyone help me id it?
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RE: Id this insect in my cucumbers
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| White Flies...spray them with horicult.soap or they will suck the life out of you plants. |
RE: Id this insect in my cucumbers
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| Oh,BTW you can also just hose spray them with water,cheaper;) |
RE: Id this insect in my cucumbers
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| Thanks for your post. I dont think they are whiteflies, they are brown in color for except of that tail that is white and does come off. They also jump like a flea but I have been looking thru the net at all the flea beetle photos I see and they dont look like them except for the behavior of jumping. A few of them have jump to my hands and you definitely feel the impact... |
RE: Id this insect in my cucumbers
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I don't know the name, but I also have plenty of them every year on my vegetables, as well as roses, daylilies and other plants. It does not seem like that they do much harm. I just ignore them. They can bu quite abandant.
Olga |
RE: Id this insect in my cucumbers
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| Are those the things that make the patches of white fluff on the stems? Never did figure out what those were or if they were dangerous or not. |
RE: Id this insect in my cucumbers
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| Edy, the things that make the white fluff are mealy bugs.. I don't think that's what that image is, but it isn't exactly a close up lol... |
RE: Id this insect in my cucumbers
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| Not whiteflies and not mealybugs...but the picture is not adequate for an identification, at least not from me. If I were FORCED to guess (lol), I'd suggest that it might be a nymph of one of the many plant hopper insects. They are 'jumpers' and often look like they have a fluffy butt. Or fluffy stuff coming out of their butts. You know what I mean. |
RE: Id this insect in my cucumbers
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I agree is not the best photo. My cellphone camera is great but dont do macro. Here is a couple of photos using my kodak. I took them late so if there still not clear enough I will break the tripod and take some tomorrow during the day... thanks for helping.
My plant is healthy by any other means. I do have a few leaves that look like something ate on it, sorta what you would expect from flea beetles but then again, not sure these are flea beetles.... |
RE: Id this insect in my cucumbers
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| Guess what? I was right. They are nymphs of some kind of plant hopper. See that little greenish bubble on the butt of upside-down one? That would be 'recycled' cucumber sap. ;-) Plant hoppers insert their little needle like mouthparts into the vascular system of plants and suck away. |
RE: Id this insect in my cucumbers
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| Yep, leafhopper nymphs, they did a number on one of my watermelons last year. Squish those buggers! Watch out too, they can bite...at least the adults do, not sure about te nymphs though. I think de is supposed to do a good job on them, but not really sure. I think insecticidal soap would work , but would probably require a "direct hit" |
RE: Id this insect in my cucumbers
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| I have some worryfree spray with their name on it. Been reading for a bit and it seems there is not much organic stuff to kill them... |
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