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Growing => Gardens => Topic started by: chairmanphil on May 08, 2012, 09:07:02 pm

Title: aphids??
Post by: chairmanphil on May 08, 2012, 09:07:02 pm

does anyone else have any rose aphids in their greenhouse yet? i have spotted and killed a few already.

Title: Re: aphids??
Post by: miniaturesabound on May 10, 2012, 07:50:07 am

I have them on my sprouting broccoli and that's outside!

Title: Re: aphids??
Post by: chairmanphil on May 10, 2012, 09:04:38 am

not just me then? i am killing what i see but there are always more than you see!

Title: Re: aphids??
Post by: Plantoid on May 15, 2012, 11:08:44 pm

Quote from: chairmanphil on May 08, 2012, 09:07:02 pm

does anyone else have any rose aphids in their greenhouse yet? i have spotted and killed a few already.

Had a few and a few white fly in mine , so I put in one of the yellow sticky card traps and they have all but disappeared . After three weeks the card is a veritable zoo of different dead flies & creepie crawlies .

Title: Re: aphids??
Post by: miniaturesabound on May 16, 2012, 08:30:33 am

I think I'd be worried that 'good' insects got trapped on a sticky card. Having said that, I always thought ladybirds were good insects to have around but I'm not so sure now - millions of them around and still have aphids!

Title: Re: aphids??
Post by: chairmanphil on May 16, 2012, 09:30:03 am

Quote from: miniaturesabound on May 16, 2012, 08:30:33 am

I think I'd be worried that 'good' insects got trapped on a sticky card. Having said that, I always thought ladybirds were good insects to have around but I'm not so sure now - millions of them around and still have aphids!

it's the lava from ladybirds that kill aphids.