Re: CULT: aphid control - long

Linda,

Sounds like your location would be OK for using disulfoton, especially at the rate you suggest. My concern was that people not be using this product inside their homes were they would be breathing in the fumes. Disulfoton has a fairly high vapor pressure (i.e. it stinks), and being an organophosphate, it does affect the nervous system of organisms exposed to it.

"Bill (if you've waded thru all this) can you recommend winter predator habitat creation? If these aphids can be out flying around, surely there are some predators out also."

I did, and the problem with natural control of pests, is that as gardeners, we are often unwilling to accept all that comes with natural. It is natural for aphids to be active before their predators, and to reproduce faster, so that the predators have plenty to eat. A good "natural' aphid/predator balance never drives the prey (aphids) to zero, or all your predators will starve.
Bill

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