Aphids keep appearing on my zuc plant and then the ants soon follow. Every day I have to spray organic soap to kill both of these pests. It works, but only for a few hours.....then they return.
How can I put a stop to this? They took out my highly productive cuc plant and now their starting to destroy the zuc plant.
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Personally, I like this solution:
[img]https://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll272/applesbucket/Image8544.jpg[/img]
You can see the yellow aphids covering the leaf in the background. In the foreground, majority of the aphids have been mummified by the Aphid Mummy Maker wasps and have the oddly bloated dried up tan look to them.
I don't spray these milkweeds because they are for The Monarch butterflies to lay eggs on. Downside is that some of the mummy makers also parasitize the Monarch eggs so I have to collect the eggs as soon as they are laid and rise them indoors.
[img]https://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll272/applesbucket/Image8544.jpg[/img]
You can see the yellow aphids covering the leaf in the background. In the foreground, majority of the aphids have been mummified by the Aphid Mummy Maker wasps and have the oddly bloated dried up tan look to them.
I don't spray these milkweeds because they are for The Monarch butterflies to lay eggs on. Downside is that some of the mummy makers also parasitize the Monarch eggs so I have to collect the eggs as soon as they are laid and rise them indoors.
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aphids:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphid
anyone have ideas for this one?:
some of my yacon plants have acanthomyops ants (yellow, completely subterranean ants that smell of citronella [you may have come across these while digging]), farming fat white aphids on the underground portions of the stems. pretty hard to spray anything there. ideas?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphid
anyone have ideas for this one?:
some of my yacon plants have acanthomyops ants (yellow, completely subterranean ants that smell of citronella [you may have come across these while digging]), farming fat white aphids on the underground portions of the stems. pretty hard to spray anything there. ideas?
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