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  • From: Lucy Owsley <boulderbelt AT embarqmail.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Flea Beetle Control:Parasitic Nematodes, Steinernema feltiae
  • Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 07:56:17 -0400

what I use for flea beetles is a combination of row covers and sticky traps made from water filled bottles covered with Tangle foot. Put row covers on hoops over your FB plagued crop than place a sticky trap every 3' in the row and wait 18 to 24 hours and the FB's should be 99% eradicated. The water warms up during the day and the FB are attracted to that warmth when night falls and they jump onto the bottles, get stuck and die. I use this with great success with arugula and eggplant (the 2 things the FB's destroy on my farm). Nematodes have never done much for FB's for me but do control Japanese beetles and root knot nematodes quite well. I usually get the pack that has 2 or 3 different species.




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