Re: Aphids and peonies

I pruned and watered some of my azaleas today and noticed those nasty aphids all over the leaves.  They are sucking my plants to death.  It has also been an unusually dry spring in this area, and I believe this has made the situation worst.  My azaleas are under pine trees, and it take a lot of water to keep them looking good.

What is a effective product to spray on azaleas for aphids?

At 10:08 AM 4/23/00 -0600, you wrote:
Yes, but it's a blessing that most aphids can't fly. By the time they walk
down to soil surface and over to another plant then up that, they're just
about through with their life cycle. If you're lucky they die before they
stick mouth parts into the new plant. Margaret L

At 09:12 AM 4/23/2000 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 4/23/00 1:38:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>bk161@rgfn.epcc.edu writes:
>
><< Aphids are high in protein. >>
>
>Aphids are also efficient transmitters of disease as they go about their
>daily business of sucking on every plant they light on.  In the daffodil
>world, it is suggested that if one cultivar is virused, aphids can transmit
>that virus to a healthy cultivar. 
>
>In Ohio, however, we don't usually see aphids at the same time the daffodils
>are up.  But I don't know why this thinking wouldn't apply to other plants
>and their diseases.
>Bill Lee
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Mike York, Shagging Forever
Red Barn Farm and Gardens
North Carolina
Zone 7
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