3 Insects That Eat Eggplants, and Some Things You Can Do About Them.
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
- Anyone that has grown Eggplants knows how much insects like to eat Eggplants. There are more than 3 insects that can eat them, but in this video, I will talk about the 3 bugs that eat them the most in our garden. I will show what they look like, how to spot them, and also give some tips on how to get rid of them.
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Love this video! Very informative. I have thousands of them on my eggplant. I’ve just given the leaves a good scrub with detergent and water and hosed them off. Thanks for the tips
You're welcome! Thanks for watching, Amy!
Awesome shots of those pests. We have different bugs so it's cool to see. Funny how much dishsoap and water can take care of:))
Thanks a bunch. The bugs you have are a little more cold hardy than ours 😀
Thanks. I will be inspecting my eggplants latter today. 🤠
You're welcome! I hope you don't have as many bugs on them as we usually do.
In growing eggplants for the first time. I saw what I suspect were squash bugs and decided to do some more research.
I'm grateful I discovered ur video. I found it very educational 👍🏻
Thanks Debbie! I'm glad that you found this video to be useful. Thanks for taking the time to leave this comment!
Same dilemma here with bugs attacking eggplants. I did manage to get good harvest last season but I don't know how they will be this year though. I might have to take one or two of your advice. Thanks for sharing.
You're welcome! I knew that somebody out there was going through the same things as us :) The flea beetles just keep on going. They never stop.
Thanks a ton mate. This helped.
You're welcome! Glad it helped!
I just used a mixture of half cup of olive oil, 1 tsp of dish soap and water and sprayed it on those flea beetles and they died on contact hopefully I didn't just kill my plants in the process!😬🤞
Yep, I hope that works out! Thanks for sharing!
@@MidwestGardener Update, I overdid it on my eggplants leaves and some of them cooked in the sun and lost a few leaves but I think my plants will recover. I actually sprayed this on all of my other veggie plants and they are all fine but I double dosed my eggplants because they were looking pretty bad with the bugs feasting on them.
@@MultiLisa10 Thanks for the update! Much appreciated!
@@MidwestGardener welcome and thanks for sharing your info!
Some good info on those pests early. Most of us will be seeing at least a couple of those this year. Thanks for the share!
Thanks! I hope we don't have as many of them as we usually do. Crazy busy this week. We're gonna have one more freeze at least here.
@@MidwestGardener We're about to hit one in a day or 2 as well. A freeze. :(
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Darn little critters 😊
Funny how when I plan and daydream about the garden, flea beetles are never in my dreams. They sure are in the real-world garden though. ; )
Lol, true. They might be in some gardening nightmares though 😀
I was just reading/googling about them last night and took pics like i do every couple weeks for my gardening journals of all my plants. I was so excited. I grow them every year for twenty plus years. This is first type called little fingers. It is literally the size of a man fingers. Perfect IMO for stir fries. Grilled veggies etc. I was bragging to my cousin. 1st mistake, who lives in South and I want yall to know that I woke up this morning and that thing was half dead. Riddled with flea beetles holes all over my beautiful leaves
I had same thought and took off 75% of leaves and I put in new pot with brand new dirt. That dirt was last years. We shall see. I am this many years old before I have even encountered such a wretched ruthless lil demons.
Good luck with them. They can sure try your patience.
As a kid gardening with my Dad in Kansas, those flea beetles were a real challenge. I have a lot of flea beetles in the summer, here in Oregon's Willamette Valley. But they aren't on my eggplants -- they go for the new wild field mustard plants. The wild field mustard really takes a beating in the hot summer weather, but new plants will sprout in cool weather and give a nice crop. So it's a decent tradeoff, I think. It's sure a lot better than having the flea beetles riddle my eggplant leaves. Have a great 2019 garden season!
That's very interesting. They like our eggplants so well that I don't think of them liking other plants better, but it very nice for you that you have a trap crop for them. They can really try my patience :) I'm glad that you have memories of gardening with your Dad. Those have to be pretty special. I hope you have a great 2019 garden season too!
Thank you so much for information, it helps
You're welcome!
Great heads up on what to look for! You had everything going on there. I guess If caught at the stages you showed the plants will survive and produce ?
They can really survive quite a bit of abuse from insects when they get some good size. All of those plants produced well. I don't stress too much about the bugs, but I do try to keep their numbers down. Especially if the plants show any signs of stress.
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Good morning.
thank you, very useful
You're welcome!
Nice informative video 👍👍
Thank you!
your really helpful thanks
You're welcome! Thanks a bunch for watching!
Good morning Jim. I'm pretty sure the flea beetles are my main challenge for egg plants. Thanks for the information. Best wishes Bob.
I feel your pain on those little bugs. They are relentless little pests for sure. And they show up every single year for us.
Yup they are one thing I can depend on every year. 😖
Lol, at least we have one thing we can depend on 😀
Interesting! Ground cherries as a trap crop. I noticed something similar with tzimbalo melon pear when I grew it next to my eggplants. The blister beetles preferred the tmp.
Hummmmmmmm something to think about. Thanks.
I saw that the leaves on my eggplant had developed many white spots. Initially I didn't take much notice but later on it kept happening to other leaves as well. Upon closer inspection I saw that the white spots actually had tiny green worms living within the foliage and they were making the green leaves white by eating the green part.
What should I do in this situation? Severely infested leaves had to be removed as they had too many of these worms. But is there any way to prevent this from happening? My eggplant is just a few months old and has just started to develop flowers. Thank you🙏
Sorry to hear that. I don't usually have any trouble with worms on our eggplants. If you are sure they are worms, you could use some insecticidal soap to knock their numbers down quickly, then use BT every 10 days to keep them in check.
Need help with my eggplant plants found some different bug.
Yes, there are lots of different insects that like to eat eggplants.
I’ve seen some colony of tiny black ants under the leaves of my eggplants. Does it harms the plants? Hope to get help sir. Thanks
The ants probably won't harm your plants, but if you want to get rid of them, put diatomaceous earth around the base of the plant.
Midwest Gardener thank you sir.
@@assouprai2916 You're welcome.
Always get awesome info from you Mr. Jim! You help so many folks learn of the problems and cures they may find in their gardens. Keep up the great work and hope you have a great weekend!
Thanks for the kind words, CB! I wouldn't mind dealing with some bugs right now. That would mean that i had something growing. Won't be long though.
Just a little longer my friend! Hang in there!
Yep, just around the corner.
I’m at a loss. Once again I thought , ok I’m gonna try growing eggplant again. And once again something has eatin the begeezus out of alllllll my plants and I can not find the culprit!😭😭 oh wait? I did see these funny looking , almost like extra large lady bugs but they were orange and had like stripes I think, then on the leaf on the bottom was a clump of orange. I give up 😭😭😭😭
@@MidwestGardener thank you , today I sprayed them with something I got from the garden centre, so fingers crossed I can save them. This has happened every single time I ever have tried eggplant.
Yes, there are lots of bugs that like to eat them. I hope what you are spraying with works!
Hello! Thank you for sharing you’re video. I have an eggplant that has ants eating the leaves? Yesterday I noticed some small black bugs, I want to say that they are leaf hoppers? But I’m not so sure. I’ve already tried spraying peppermint to the plant and umm it’s not really helping. The plant itself looks healthy the leaves are at a great color and I don’t see any type of disease yet. I have around 5 flowers that growing on the plant but I’m afraid to touch it because they are so delicate. Do you have any recommendations? Today I will try applying Vaseline to the stem hopefully it’ll keep the ants away.
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Sorry to hear about the ants bothering your plants. I'm assuming they are fire ants. We don't have those here, so I don't have any experience with them. I do know that there are some baits that you can use to eradicate their colonies. I think I would visit a local nursery and ask what they would suggest. Sorry I couldn't have been of more help.
@@MidwestGardener Not to worry, a mixture of water and Dr Bonners with a few drops of pepper mint worked wonders. I did have to go back in the afternoon to wash of the residue but that was ok. I wish I could take a picture so that I could show you this plant. It has grown up to 4ft tall and 3 ft wide. I’ve yet to see any fruit come out.
whats boring in my fruit? does anyone know
If the holes are very tiny, it might be flea beetles. If the holes are larger, it might be army worms.
I hope they don’t show up this year... Thank you for great tips Jim!
Oh, they will show up :) You're welcome Sasha!
*Do the flea beetles look like tiny "sugar" ants? Im having what looks like tiny black ants on my eggplant and they were a ton of them on the actual baby fruit!?*
I don't think they look like ants at all. If you put your finger near them, flea beetles will sometimes jump just like a flea does. Also if you have flea beetles, they will make lots of tiny holes in the leaves. They don't move around very quickly, and they are very tiny. I've never seen them on fruit.
@@MidwestGardener thank you! I looked with a jewelers loop and they are ants!!! I bought the sevin you had in your Amazon.
@@Haloskeeper1 Interesting. I've never seen ants on our eggplants. I don't think I had sevin on my amazon page.
0:40 yiiiiiksssss. Trypophobia anyone?
I didn't even know that was a fear. Thanks.
flee beatles were really the only problems I had last year
Yep, they seem to show up every year. Once the plant are bigger, they can usually hold up to it, but when they are small, it can be a real big problem.
This is exactly why I stopped growing eggplants. They are like pest magnets in my garden. Got tired of having to inspect and spray them all of the time.
Yes, I can understand how it wouldn't be worth the effort for some people. The bugs sure don't make it easy.
This is my 1st year gardening and my eggplant are getting swarmed. Glad to know this isn't a uncommon I'm having. I don't know if I'll be growing eggplant next year if I have to babysit it a lot more than other plants. Hopefully, I'll have a good harvest this year
Get some free range chickens and they’ll eat all the bugs
True. It's on my bucket list.
Something ate my brinjal stem and made it naked
Sorry to hear that.
@@MidwestGardener I am wondering what that could be......many african giant snail comes to my garden at night.....I am wondering if it is liable for it......what do you think?
It sounds like a logical suspicion to me. If you think that it might be snails, I would use diatomaceous earth, and be sure to wear some breathing protection when you apply it, like a respirator or N95 mask.
Food grade diatomaceous earth is usually not too hard to find.
@@MidwestGardener thank you very much......I will give it a try🙂