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From: geoffs@brl-sem.ARPA (Geoffrey Sauerborn )
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Re: Little flies ...around tomatoes
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Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 08:31:25 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 29 08:31:25 1985
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 ' <--- an anti-tomatoe-sap sucking moth-natt

	Around this time of year, (and especially during September and
early October), my tomatoe plants get these little white bugs the size
of natts. One way to describe them is they look like little moths the
size of natts. They are apparently living parasitcally off the plant's sap
(they suck the plant juices). But they don't seem to bother the fruit.

	They are more of an annoyance than anything else. When I go into
the tomatoe patch, brushing against the plants causes these little pests
to take to the air by the hundreds in a slow motion panic. They get
stuck all over my cothes and hair.

	Does anyone else have such troubles?  (I don't want to mess with
a pesticide since the fruit doesn't seemed threatened.)

						Geoff Sauerborn