Re: Orange aphids

Also, I've experimented with both lacewings and ladybugs.
I've had good success with lacewing eggs, but again, you
need to have the nectar plants like carrot family, fennel,
yarrow, etc. so that the adults stay around and you have
a complete life-cycle going.  In fact, I've found that lacewings
will knock down eugenia psylids much more effectively than
the tamarixia that we're supposed to have around here (but
don't).  I got some lacewing eggs from Rincon-Vitoba (I think),
and some from Gardens Alive...both worked just fine.  There
are lots of other places that sell these as well that have
internet sites.

As for ladybugs, I guess they all decided that their houses
were burning and went home to save their children.  After
putting them out, I never see them again.  I did follow all
the usual instructions, time of the day, temperature, food, etc.
So I suppose that we don't have what is needed to have in our 
garden to keep them around.

-Roger
	From rogerv Mon Mar 20 21:05:50 2000
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	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?? >>
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