Re: garden pest ID

Preying mantis food. I watched one devour as many as it could while 
eating lunch today.
Theresa

Jesse Bell wrote:
> 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>
>>>>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>>>>> 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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>>>> Jesse R. Bell
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