I’m keeping my tomato, tomatillo, & pepper plants inside under a grow light waiting for low temps to get at least get into the 50s F. Had a huge problem w/ #FungusGnat larvae that killed all my okra, cantaloupe, & lavender seedlings. Then I started treating surviving plants’ soil w/hydrogen peroxide. No dilutions, just straight H2O2. After 4 days, no signs of larvae—and one pepper seedling has gone from almost dead to revived.

#gardening

Finally (drumroll) the most abundant species in the processed samples.

Things I would never have recorded myself:

Cortinicara gibbosa (#beetle), Dumbletoniella callistemoni and Trialeurodes vaporiarorum (#WhiteFlies), Psychoda albipennis (#MothFly), Lycoriella sativae (#FungusGnat), Aphis spiraecola (#Aphid)

Three #moths. Two (Hoplostega ochroma and Phelotis cognata) are very familiar. I recognise Bedellia somnulentella, but I would never have been confident on the species otherwise.

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