The tomato plants and a few of the flats of beans have a white fly infestation. I released Delphastus pusillus to help curb the problem. Today i only found two white flies so they seem to be doing their job. Please excuse the funky top of this tomato plant, i accidentally bent it with my 'chest' area last week.
This is another shot of the tube. The beetles are the black dots on the strips of paper.
You can't see anything here but i released Stratiolaelaps scimitus which are little tiny predatory mites that eat the fungus gnat larva. My fungus gnat infestation is the worst of the three infestations i have, it's pretty intense. They're really tiny flies when they're adults and i breath them in a lot while i'm working, not fun, very gross. They're also eating the roots of my beans which is really pissing me off. I've lost two and a half flats to these little bastards.
This is the tube they came in, you can't see the bugs so i figured i would show you this.
I have a slight aphid problem, my ladybugs are still kickin but not in the numbers i would like them to be in. When the bugs arrived these little guys hadn't hatched yet. They started hatching yesterday and i've been doing a slow release with them. Yesterday was about 50 and today was around 100 flies. These little guys don't like fans very much so i only have the ones on the ceiling going with is causing the fungus gnats to explode in population. I also have to keep the humidity high for these flies and the mites, which is also not helping with the fungus gnat issue.
When the beetles came out of shock they all ran to the tops of the bamboo stakes that the tomatoes are tied too. Weird little bugs.
I still have to order in a few more bugs for the fungus gnat issue so i'll be doing this again soon.
A side note: since all the snow melted today i went out to check the garden. I still have 3 heads of cabbage kickin and 3 kohl rabi's, if the sun comes out i'll be able to harvest them in a few days.
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