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Plant pests

Ian-18Ian-18 Posts: 2
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This year, all of my outdoor and indoor plants are infested with white fly, black fly, green fly and vine weevils. Why are they so abundant this year and how can i eradicate them please? 
We've tried washing up liquid and water, Moonshine bug off and soaking the roots and physically pick the eggs off the plants and roots and nothing works. We've also tried electronic pest control and sticky fly control. All my plants are infested.
Help!!!

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  • robairdmacraignilrobairdmacraignil Posts: 782
    Ladybirds, parasitic wasps, some small birds and hoverflies are good at eating them if you can encourage them to visit your plants. Moonshine bug off sounds like an insecticide and these kill the predator insects as well as any bugs you are targeting so your high numbers of those pests you list could be down to the predators that were keeping the pest numbers in check being killed by your spray. I'd just wash them off with a spray of water and manually squash the bugs if the numbers are very dense and hope your predator insects make their way back to your garden. Having lots of flowers through the year provides alternative food sources for some predator insects and small birds can be encouraged with water baths for them to wash and drink and nest boxes. Also piles of old logs and other materials can give shelter to some of the predator insects and a wildlife pond is great for encouraging them.

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  • Simone_in_WiltshireSimone_in_Wiltshire Posts: 1,073
    @Ian-18 You have the wrong plants and soil in your garden, and reading what you tried, you probably "killed" more the predators.
    I checked yesterday my garden, there is only plant that has got blackfly and this is a new Viburnum. Everything else is looking healthy. But I also water my garden if needed. We have hardly rain here this year and drought puts a strain on plants which makes it easier for these bugs.

    I ♥ my garden.

  • StephenSouthwestStephenSouthwest Posts: 635
    I check any aphid covered plants for ladybird larvae, and if there aren't any, then I squirt the aphids off with one of those pump up water squirters - it works very well.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    What were the eggs you’ve found that you picked off,  aphids don’t lay eggs and I doubt you’d see vine weevil eggs?
    But as Stephen says,  you can squirt the aphids off,  you’d need to be out in the dark to catch the vine weevil,  they’re rarely out through the day. 

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Ian-18Ian-18 Posts: 2
    Thank you to all for your advice. The eggs and what look like vine weevils are in the roots. We have abundant flowers and even a bug hotel, made out pallets. We've got a pond too, with waterfall, and we feed the birds, so got most things covered.
    It wasn't Moonshinewe used, it was Brontè Bug Control  which is organic at least.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Can we see a photo of the pests please … we can’t really be of real help without a clear ID. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    You won't see Vine Weevil eggs they are tiny and the colour of soil as they hatch.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
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