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Name:  Lance
Status:   other
Age:   20s
Location: N/A
Country: N/A
Date: Around 1999
Question:
Help! I was wondering if you knew the name of a spray insecticide that kills leaf miners. I have not had any luck with scraping the eggs off the leaves. They are destroying my garden.


Replies:
For information on how to get rid of leaf miners, try this link:
http://www.planetnatural.com/site/xdpy/kb/leafminer-control.html

For information about leaf miners, try this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf_miner PG

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