Re: [SHADEGARDENS] aphids

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• To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
• Subject: Re: [SHADEGARDENS] aphids
• From: M* L* <m*@MICRON.NET>
• Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 07:59:14 -0700

At 11:20 PM 2/14/98 EST, you wrote:
>In a message dated 98-02-14 22:22:40 EST, missrika@EARTHLINK.NET writes:
>
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> Try a simple remedy:   use horticulural oil and soap -- why use
> chemicals with more risks involved?
>
>  >>
>But there are no risks! Get rid of 'em without having to go to the trouble of
>making some solution that might not work. Just a squirt or two of a chemical
>will be bye-bye to the aphids.
>
Sorry to disabuse you of the notion that these are harmless.  All
pesticides are toxic to some degree.  Do you get the squirts on your bare
hands?  Inhale it?  Drip onto leather or fabric shoes?  Better living is
not necessarily through chemistry.  Margaret

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