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What disease has my rocket(and pak choi) got? And how do I treat it?

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  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 36,845
    Hello liz.harvey1 and welcome to the forum. Have you noticed any tiny creatures that hop off your plants when disturbed? The damage looks as though it could have been caused by flea beetles which are partial to members of the brassica family. There is a lot of information here:


    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • Thanks. I think you are correct. Will horticultural fleece now help or will this now just trap the flea beetles inside the net? 
  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 36,845
    I think that it might be a little late now for those, unfortunately, but there is plenty of time to sow more seeds of rocket and pak choi and get crops just a little later in the year and you can protect them.
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • ForTheBeesForTheBees Posts: 168
    edited July 2019
    Without too much care I was trying to grow some rocket. It was looking a bit pest attacked but manageably so. However I just checked it today to find looking rather worse for wear and covered it lots of weevils running about frantically.


  • arneilarneil Posts: 308
    Yuck ! thats a big vine weevil in the bottom right hand corner !
  • ForTheBeesForTheBees Posts: 168
    I don't believe they're vine weevils. They have big chunky faces whereas these are a species with an elongated rostrum (the fancy term for their snouts, I had to google it!)
  • ForTheBeesForTheBees Posts: 168
    edited July 2019
    I've decided they're definitely not vine weevils on the account that vine weevils are said to be non-flyers, and my weevils definitely can. Cabbage Stem Weevil (Ceutorhynchus pallidactylus) is my current best guess.
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