You may need to use row covers to keep beetles from laying eggs on squash plants, for example, or use an insecticidal soap to remove aphid infestations.
Aphid infestations can be sprayed off with a strong blast of water from the hose.
By controlling ants you may also find that the aphid problem is reduced.
Attract and protect aphid predators such as ladybugs, lacewings, assassin bugs, praying mantis, adult wasps, spiders and chickadees.
So give him to someone else who's having aphid problems.
Many species of aphid migrate from one plant to another at certain stages in their life-cycle when their numbers have very largely increased, and F.
- Cabbage Aphid (Aphisbrasszcae).
An American Aphid of the genus Pemphigus produces black, ragged, leathery and cut-shaped excrescences on the young branches of the hickory.
