Little black Beetles

 

Lot's of them!

They're about the size of aphids. Anyone else experiencing them or know what
they are?

mark

 



"mark"  wrote

If they are on your cabbages and they hop when you go near them then it's
the dreaded Flea Beetle.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK

 



I'm now in a position to answer my own question!
A neighbour has referred to them as pollen beetles.
A quick google seems to confirm this.  They like rape pollen so that would
tie-in with  hundreds being on a yellow t-shirt on the washing line.

http://www.bayercropscience.co.uk/content.output/1543/1551/Crop%20Centre/Overcoming%20Threats/Pollen%20Beetle.mspx


mark
 

 



If they're the same as mine there are several zillion infesting my roses,
though dousing them with Provado seems to kill a lot of the buggers. I don't
know if they're to blame, but my first flush of blooms were a stunted,
distorted failure. But after Provado, I'm now getting some proper flowers
again.

I presumed it was the beatles, since I couldn't see hardly any aphids or
thrips or anything else. Just masses of the little beetle things. I did post
further up the group, but got no responses :'(



Ian

 



Same here, I have a very small rose and with a million of these things on
it, it was getting even smaller!

Took 3 goes over the space of a week with the "multi purpose bug killer" but
they're gone now. I just assumed they were blackfly, but I'm probably wrong.