Re: garden pest ID

Well, the first time I found them they were on seedling plants that I was growing on. I figured they'd easily suck the life out of such young plants. On the mature plant today, I'm not that worried. It is a strong grower and it is late in the season. But baby plants are a different thing. You have to protect them. 

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jesse Bell" <justjess01@gmail.com> 
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Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] garden pest ID



ME TOO...it's a shiny, orange, funky looking aphid that is all over my
asclepias every year...except this year. THIS year my asclepias didn't make 
it.  They looked like they had some kind of powdery mildew on them and
withered away. Too much rain I guess. I just sprayed my flowers down with water and hit them pretty hard and they'd go away for awhile, and then come back. They didn't seem to kill the plant or do a lot of harm, so I just let 
them be.  Figured they'd be ladybug food.



On 9/16/08, Theresa G. <macycat3@sbcglobal.net> wrote:


I have a funky bright orange aphid that totally covers my asclepias every
year. They don't bother anything else and they don't kill the plant. so I 
just leave them alone.  I figure they must have some synergistic
relationship going on that I can't possibly understand..

Theresa

Kitty wrote:


Oh, wow, yeah.
I just google-imaged 'heliopsis aphid' and lots of photos of same ones I
have.

SO...............
Should I cut the plant down?
Spray what I can?
Do nothing this late in the game?

I'd like to prevent them coming back next year.



Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jesse Bell" <justjess01@gmail.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] garden pest ID
They look like some kind of aphid to me....and I've seen them before, but 
never in such a large amount at one time.  Wow.



On 9/16/08, Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net> wrote:



that's LARGE, not LARCH, sorry.

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 2:10 PM
Subject: [CHAT] garden pest ID


OK, what ARE these pesky critters?  I found them earlier this year
sucking


the life out of some small plants and killed them off.  but now they
have
literally covered every inch of a larch Heliopsis Loraine Sunshine. I 
tried
to spray, but I now I'll never get them all. Should I just cut Loraine 
down
completely to head off the possibility that these bugs will lay eggs if 
left
to long on the plant?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kmrsy/2863431106/

HELP!!!

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5

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