Hi Margaret, >>Byron, you do NOT know everything about everything, with your "citations." That's only part of the evidence on Capsicum plants. The virus attacks many other plants (squash, tomatoes, beans, beets, eggplant, and flowers, for instance). You live about 1,500 miles from the area curly top is resident. Write about what you know about, but please do not advise beginning gardeners to use the toxic substances you use for insecticides. Margaret<< Someone once told me that when you send an idiot to school, what you get back is a trained idiot. Unfortunately, beseeching Bromley to shut up seems as effective as trying to plug the Mississippi with a bottle cork. He actually seems to believe the "citations" that he has somehow collected. <G> It would certainly be nice to see the list free of his spamming idiocy. He seems to be a master of "out of context plagiarism." About all you can do is correct his babble when it comes forth. :-/ Chuck Wyatt