They do look like lacewing eggs but not in clusters like images I've seen. Usually just one here and there. Haven't seen any lacewing either. Maybe I'll just try to track one and see what it hatches into. Thanks.
Hop Pests ID thread: Pics, descriptions and solutions
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The beetle in your pic is a June bug. They mostly active right after dusk.
dcHokie
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My brother-in-law spotted this guy, looks like the Hop Merchant (Eastern Comma), on one of my Cascade bines. He had managed to strip about 4 feet worth of leaves in just a few hours.
bristela
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Thanks for that. It's a lot easier to ID bugs when you have a name to go with. Just searching with an image can take for ever. Didn't know if I had a Japanese beetle or a Green June bug that was for some reason brown.
Im having trouble with downy mildew on my peppers and im worried about it spreading to my hops. My hop bines are filled with cones and starting sidearm growth. Is there a fungicide(preferably organic) thats safe to use and wont ruin the cones I have going? Ive already lost my Beefsteak tomatoes to this damned plague mildew!!!
EDIT: Id rather use a systemic fungicide more so than a foliar spray.
EDIT: Id rather use a systemic fungicide more so than a foliar spray.
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I really try not to touch any of my plants unless it's necessary. The organicide is ok on the cones? Is it a systemic?
aulee
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I have leaf damage but no visible pests. There is some slightly sticky residue remaining, though. Any idea what this could be? I've looked all over but no visible bugs.
bristela
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Having grown up in Scotland but now living in Texas not sure I've ever seen one up close. Thanks again. I've gotten more into identifying my pests now. Think I've manage to spot some hop merchant caterpillars as well as a long-legged fly (which apparently eat other insects). You can find some pics on my hop growing blog.
Two things to mention here.
1) Peppers do not get downy mildew very often, are you sure it is downy mildew? When they do get powdery mildew however, it infects the underside of the leaf, making it look like downy mildew.
2) Regardless of what the disease is, neither mildew will transfer to hops, I mean there is ZERO chance of it. You could shake the spores from infected pepper leaves all over the hops and it would not make a difference. Hops downy mildew is caused by Psuedoperonospora humuli, which is only found on hops. Powdery mildew of hops is caused by Podosphera macularis, is only found on hops, strawberries, and maple trees. So no need to worry about cross contamination from your sick pepper plants.
I don't think it's powdery mildew and the weather I've been having fits the needs for downy to start. Only the undersides have been getting it but nothing ever on top. When I spray them off there's tiny black dots left behind underneath where the fungus was growing. And whatever it is it did start showing up on a few of my hops leaves. It just poured so I didnt see anything on my hops this time, hopefully it stay that way. I hate that stuff any leaf that has any bit of it dies the next day. Heres a few pics of what it did to my pepper plant...
That is not fungus, those are insects! Likely some sort of wooly aphid, and the black dots you see are the dead bodies once the wax has been washed away by your spraying. Unlike fungi, most insects have a wide range of host plants.
theredben said:
So you think the white fuzzy looking stuff isnt fungus? Because it definitely looked like it was. I looked online and it looked like downy. Any advice on ridding this white fuzz for good? And for keeping them off my hops?
I've been using dish soap/water spray or alcohol/water. Im just worried about any residue being left on the cones.
The fuzz may have been from wooly aphids; google image them. They would be kind of cool if they weren't trying to feast on my young.
I am a first time hop grower. I seem to be having a couple of problems, but I am having trouble identifying the cause of the problems. Early in the year I realized that a bunch of caterpillars were munchin' on my leaves, so I killed them off with Sevin. But now that they are gone, some is still eating my leaves and I am not sure what it is. Also, I have recently noticed that the leaves on one of my Nugget plants and turned brown and curling up. A couple have completely died. They have been getting plenty of water and I have fertilized them a couple of times with fish and seaweed emulsion. Any ideas as to what the cause is?? I've attached some pictures of each problem.
bristela said:
Nice blog. The easiest way to tell the difference between the japanese beetle and june bug is the segmented body. In the pics you posted, you can see the japanese beetle has 3(head, shoulder and body). I don't know the scientific terms for it but I'm sure a quick google/bing search will let u know. In a few weeks ill be posting a lot about what pest I'm dealing with. Time to go get a book on bugs.
Ive been rather fortunate with deterring pests ao far this year. Had an evil caterpillar i threw to the birds but other than that its been fine...until this last week. Ive noticed little bits of damage but today i saw an unexpected culprit. A ladybug. Im concerned about using pesticides on my hops because they share a bed with ripening strawberries and a massive tomato bush. The pesticide i had originally used was supposed to be used just once yearly and not around harvest time. With a toddler picking berries as she pleases, i cant risk toxic berries. Has anyone tried using dish-soap and water as an all around spray? Maybe add a drop or two of tea tree oil? Ive got the patience to go spray everything down daily/ every other day. But i don't want to cause adverse effects to my sweet chinook and willamette. Especially for nothing. Thanks for any advice.
Salute,
Hopmomma
Salute,
Hopmomma
Lady bugs are good they eat mites and other stuff. I used 1 tbsp of liquid dish soap + 1 tsp vegetable oil mixed in 1 Qt of water as a foliar spray on all my plants until my peppers and hops needed some extra back up. Thats when I got some Oganicide from home depot as advised by others on here. Its safe to use up to the day of harvest. But the soap mixture works just fine on my strawberries.
My bi-daily check revealed hundreds of these on my tomatoes and a few on my hops. Must of had a massive hatching or something cause I hadn't seen any so far this year. Little green sap sucking aphids. Hit everything in the garden with organocide. First time in a couple weeks. I've also been seeing what I think are hop fleas. Little black jumping bastards always spotted near damaged leaves. Hopefully the Organocide clogs all there little lungs and they suffocate quickly. They look and seem to be flea beatles.
hopmomma said:
That doesn't sound right at all. Is the "ladybug" actually red or an orangish red? I only ask cause ladybugs don't eat plants when they don't have aphids and other bugs to dine on. There's an actual beetle that looks like a ladybug but its shell isn't the bright red a ladybug has and if u look closely it really has a head the sticks out of the body.
After a quick search there's one type of beetle related to the ladybug that does eat plants. Its called a 28 spot ladybug. I didn't look up pics but assuming by name its more of a speckled looking ladybug.
phatspade said:
It was definately a lady bug. I dot have any aphids around here. Do have spider mites now so I've been spraying the leaves with a soapy miture until I can grab some organcide. I looked around at images and information about lady bugs and it wasn't a jap beetle. Haven't seen anymore since I have begun spraying.
I'm still convinced its not a lady bug. Growers of all sorts release lady bugs by the hundreds intentionally on there plants. If lady bugs did any damage this practice would be long gone by now. Either you have a blood thirsty, hateful, beastly, outright evil and diabolical, rogue lady bug. Or it's one of the 1000 some odd insects that attack growers plants around the globe.
bristela
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Thanks for visiting the blog
I've been enjoying trying to id the bugs I find. Found this guy on a tomato plant right beside my hops. Hope it doesn't move over. After some reading up it seems that this is a tobacco hornworm, despite it being on a tomato plant particularly when there is also something called a tomato hornworm They're very similar. The tomato version apparently has V shapes up its side rather than just stripes like this one has. Also the tail (or horn) at the back is red on tobacco ones and black on the tomato variety. 
That is indeed a horn worm. They hide in the inner parts of the plant in the day but come out during sunrise and sunset to chomp your prized plants.
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