Re: Orange aphids
- To: f*@julian.uwo.ca, m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: Orange aphids
- From: G*@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 23:29:00 EST
Frances,
The book called Rebugging Your House and Garden by Ruth Troetchler mentions
green lacewings, ladybugs, minute pirate bugs, soldier beetles, snakeflies,
and mini-wasp parasitoids as natural enemies of aphids. You can get some
predator insects through some of the mail-order (I think I saw some in
Mellenger's.) and on line catalogs, and/or you can plant host plants for
them. One plant that attracts many kinds of pradator insects is fennel,
another is cilantro. To keep pradators in the garden, don't kill off all of
their food. Save a few aphids for them.
One thing that has worked well for me is "Eau de Ladybug" from The Birding
Company, Yarmouth, Maine. I dilute it with water and spray it around the
yard.
Happy spring,
Nancy
Los Altos, CA
In a message dated 3/20/0 12:27:47 PM, fhowey@julian.uwo.ca writes:
<< Hi again: The Friends of the Gardens group at the University of Western
Ontario is in the midst of preparing for a May Plant Sale. Along with
starting things from seed, we have some asclepiadaceae - Asclepias
curassavica and Tweedia caerulea - held over from last summer. They all are
infested with this yukky orange aphid - and it's only the ascleps that have
it - nothing else, thank the Lord! We've tried pinching them and scalding
them but they come back - there is a little wasp they tell me which makes
short work of them. But I wonder if anyone on this list has any idea of how
they get there and how we can make them disappear?? >>
