Re: garden pest ID

Cool. I love to watch mantises going about being mantises. Especially because they're these geeky looking Star Wars machines... 

On Sep 16, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Theresa G. wrote:


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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