Flea beetles - please help!

[Rabidbun]

Or possibly vine weevils - they curl up and drop off the leaves of the plant as well as jumping and have made lace of the leaves.

I could quite honestly cry right now - my entire garden has become infested overnight with them. So far they have pretty much destroyed my brassicas (a variety of successional sowings), are making good headway on my radishes, taken out my rocket, my spare seedlings and by the looks of where they are will soon migrate to aubergines, peppers and lettuces. Spose it does explain why things haven't grown too well this year if these things might have larvae attacking the roots too.

There's not much left to harvest now, and I don't know whether to bother to sow any more crops for Winter, as if they are just going to be eaten I don't think I can face it.

Is there any way of making them die?

[Two_Sheds]

Flea beetles will jump if disturbed ... so get something sticky for them to jump onto (think big flypaper).

or vacuum them with a handheld

they aren't too serious a problem, if plants are healthy to start with.

If you're growing in containers, you may well have vine weevil grubs eating the roots too. You can buy a nematode to deal with them.

[Rabidbun]

Thanks - the plants just look so, well, decimated! The rocket are young, so probably doomed as they are only two inch high seedlings and the brassicas at their largest were 8 inches high. Am just shocked how fast it happened as there was no sign last night.

Will set something up with sellotape later on and get swatting. *looks depressed but determined to at least make some of them pay*