Home Vegetable Gardening: Getting Rid of White Flies
White flies are tiny, about the size of the tip of a pin, and a lone fly by themselves is hardly reason to panic, but thousands could be very destructive to your garden.
They more readily attack cucumbers, potatoes and tomatoes, and can literally wipe out your crop if not handled properly.
They usually gather on the underside of leaves of the plants and extract the sap from the plant, which could invariably kill the plant.
Here is how you can get rid of white flies from your vegetable garden.
The first step and most natural repellent and control for white flies is to attract their natural predators. As with most creatures in the insect world, white flies too, have natural predators. They include lacewings, ladybugs and praying mantids to name a few. Attract a few of these and they will definitely help you out. (more…)