Help these little white bugs are eating my basil and mint alive!!!!?

Question

I have apple-mint and two different kinds of basil in a strawberry pot,along with a few other herbs and these little bugs are eating only my mint and basils help how can i save them.

Answer 1

Calm down. Go to the supermarket or your cupboard and get a container of Pure Ivory Soap Liquid Detergent. Make sure it is not the Concentrate or Scented, etc. The Plain is what is needed. Put 1/8 tblsp/quart (1 Tlsp/gallon) in a mist spayer or hand held sprayer. Shake it well and let the suds settle down.
When settled spray the air above the plant down to the plants. Spray the leaves and fruit/blooms with the mist. Continue to spray the limbs and soil surface. Pick-up the
plant and spray the underside of the leaves as well Do this everyother day or so (you can let it go three days) for a week.
Do it three times in that week.
The Pure Ivory Soap will suffocate the insect and coat the planting. Think of it. Basil with the Ivory soap already applied and all I have to do is rinse! Hope it helps [e-mail].

Answer 2

It would help if you told us where are you located. I the US Midwest, I would think of rabbits in the city or deer in the outskirts. Slugs only eat certain leaves and they leave holes in them, just like most beetles and larvae. If the leaves are shredded or ripped off it's something much larger than a bug. UPDATE: Ok, if your plants are in pots on a table, it's probably beetles or grasshoppers, less likely slugs. Crawling insects can be stopped with diatomaceous earth, an all-organic powder which looks and feels like grinded bones, is not poisonous at all, and kills insects on contact (by drying out their wet "skin"). You spread the powder on the table around the pots, and also on the soil around the plant. Unfortunately, this is not very effective against flying things like grasshoppers, which can get directly to the leaves. But since we don't know for sure what you have, you can try the diatomaceous earth and see if the plants get better. Good luck!

Answer 3

Could also be Mealy bugs if they look like this.
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=mealy+bugs&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8

You can buy several kinds of spry for them. There are many that are enviromentally friendly or you could try Jerry G's suggestion and use soapy water to try to kill them.

Answer 4

Wish I knew, they sound like the critters that ate my hibiscus plants last year.

Answer 5

Those are called aphids they make a spray for them go to your local garden or hardware and garden they will have it