Corn leaf aphid
This is my first year trying corn. Everything was beautiful until yesterday I spotted tons of bugs. I looked them up and they appear to be corn aphids. Is it too late to do anything? They already have tassels. If it's not too late, any suggestions? There are too many to just pick them off.
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If you are one of those people that water with a hose, put on a nozzle and spray each leaf off well with a jet of water. The soapy water thing is 1 T of mild soap like dish soap, 1 T canola oil to get it to stick to a gallon of water and spray from a sprayer. Some people use more soap. Some use insecticidal soap, in which case just mix according to package directions.
If you don't get them all sprayed off or more are layed you will have to repeat the process until you havest the corn. Most of us just distroy the stalks if they were badly infested rather than compost, but I am sure there are some that still grind them up and compost them anyway.
Best of luck
If you don't get them all sprayed off or more are layed you will have to repeat the process until you havest the corn. Most of us just distroy the stalks if they were badly infested rather than compost, but I am sure there are some that still grind them up and compost them anyway.
Best of luck