{"id":3725,"date":"2010-09-01T14:50:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T13:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/?p=3725"},"modified":"2019-10-20T13:51:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T12:51:33","slug":"we-have-cabbage-whitefly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/we-have-cabbage-whitefly\/","title":{"rendered":"We have cabbage whitefly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have cabbage whitefly on the Brussels sprouts at the allotment!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rhs.org.uk\/advice\/profile?pid=482\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RHS<\/a> has to say about what it is and how to treat it:<\/p>\n<p>Cabbage whitefly is a sap-feeding insect that can infest cabbage and all other types of leafy brassica.<\/p>\n<p>The symptoms to look out for are white-winged insects about 1.5mm long which fly up in clouds from the underside of brassica leaves when disturbed, flat, oval, whitish-green scale-like nymphs are attached to the lower leaf surface and black or greenish-grey sooty moulds can develop on the upper leaf surface on the sticky honeydew excreted by this pest.<\/p>\n<p>Whitefly causes little damage so there isn&#8217;t too much to worry about but if you want to treat it an\u00a0 organic pesticide can be sprayed onto the lower leaf surfaces include, try Vitax Organic 2 in 1 Pest and Disease Control or Scotts Bug Clear for Fruit &amp; Veg. Or for chemical control you can use Bayer Sprayday Greenfly Killer All-In-One or Westland Plant Rescue Fruit &amp; Vegetable Bug Killer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The symptoms to look out for are white-winged insects about 1.5mm long which fly up in clouds from the underside of brassica leaves when disturbed, flat, oval, whitish-green scale-like nymphs are attached to the lower leaf surface and black or greenish-grey sooty moulds can develop on the upper leaf surface on the sticky honeydew excreted by this pest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5303],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-allotment-chat","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3725"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15024,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725\/revisions\/15024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}