My feed
Premium

Please
or
to access all these features

Find tips and tricks to make your garden or allotment flourish on our Gardening forum.

Gardening

What on earth are these bugs on my sweet peppers?

1 reply

Nat1H · 27/06/2008 21:24

I have had problems with aphids on my pepper plants in my tiny, plastic greenhouse. I introduced lacewing larvae and adult ladybirds which sorted them out! Now I have some odd spidery things on the underside of my leaves - just on the pepper plants. I am pretty sure they are not red spider mites as they seem to be longer and a slightly different colour than the pictures I have seen on the net. Am wondering if they are baby lacewings, but I have not noticed any eggs! Please help. Should I kill them all by squishing them or not?

OP posts:
Report
FromGirders · 27/06/2008 23:32

Difficult to tell without a bit more detail. Ca n you take a picture or look at them through a lense? Red spider mite isn't always red byt the way, normally it's light brown-ish, with two darker spots on the back (often called two-spotted-spider-mite). Only the over-wintering females are red.
Anyway, back to your problem, are there any signs of damage on the upper leaf? Predatory animals tend to run faster than leaf-damaging ones (leaves don't run away, so they don't need to be fast).
Lacewing larvae look like this

Report
Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.