WASH THEIR MOUTHS OUT: a little soap never hurt anybody, but it can kill those pesky aphids. I am looking for ladybugs. Black sooty mold spores are attracted by insects which secrete a sugary honeydew like aphids, scale & mealy bugs. Hi Nicole, your questions cover a few different topics. The wasp lands on caterpillar and injects a egg in the caterpillar. They need herbivorous insects to survive! By adding repelling plants, diversifying milkweed, and having various patches around the yard/garden we’ve lived with aphids (but without infestations) for the past four seasons. I filled it with twigs and milkweed and put a screen top on it. It actually does say that alcohol is lethal to monarchs in the LA times article, but I added a block quote under #3 for clarification. The soap water does kill them. I live west of Edmonton Alberta zone 3. There are many options to choose from: If you’d like to try companion plants, marigolds and ‘summer beauty’ allium are “supposed” to repel aphids…they also attract butterflies…especially the allium. A bit of sun but plenty of shade from towering Sunflowers. Other than that, we late nature working things out in the garden…and it has been surprisingly effective! Last year was a bad year region-wide — monarch numbers were down everywhere. -Kelly. I have been reading a lot of the post and comments and I am having a issue with the aphids on one of the plants my wife bought home from the farmers market(not sure why he sold my wife plants(2) with aphids already on them and not even make known. We just recommend to stay out of the area and allow the product to dry. Although labor-intensive, this directly addresses the issue with no risk to nearby plants. I appreciate your help and will cut the MW back as soon as these guys take off. after posting my question i did a little more reading and clearly there are Oleander Aphids that look like what i see annually on my milkweed. DO NOT USE ON CATS. We have lots of milkweed and the predators take care of most of them. Sounds, smells, orientation, patterns, and will use this knowledge upon emerging. You may be having an issue with predators. Pretty cool, huh? hi Fred, milkweed bugs eat milkweed pods/seeds…there are other aphid predators in the garden like lady bugs and lacewings. The first year we were plagued by wasps that ate our cats. I check every day for aphids, and if I find them, it’s always on one leaf or flower. I have caterpillars now and I believe more eggs. I have many pods developing, so, fingers crossed. Learning from this, I discarded my soaps and let nature take control of aphids. One specific concern is the possibility for GMOs to negatively affect human … My concern is making sure that our caterpillars are safe and that the oil won’t harm them. The degree to which their infestations effect plant health is debatable, but the ugliness they unleash upon your butterfly garden is not! I wonder what kind of lizards they were. Useful Tips To Make Your Everyday Life Just A Bit Better. As Ben Franklin said, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” He was talking about fire safety, but it is often applied to health safety. One milkweed plant is covered in aphids, but I also have about 20 caterpillars feeding on the plants. Sorry to hear the aphids are a problem this season. They suggested I leave the stalks in place so any eggs would be there to move to new growth. Video doesn’t lie: 13. Keep doing what you’re doing and it will pay off in a year with a better eastern population. It’s nice to be able to hear what other people are experiencing and doing. Any suggestions as to what the problem could be would be welcome. (Checking for Monarch eggs first, of course.) You have to spray each leaf and check the stalk as well. After about 5 seconds, he hoses the plant down with water and those pesky milkweed invaders are dead. Native milkweed typically looks pretty bad by the end of the season, so your milkweed may be at the end of its growth cycle. Combine water and baking soda with canola oil. Hi Jacki, you could always post a link. Buy some ladybugs too. Squishing (very satisfying and therapeutic) and spot treatments with insecticidal soaps kept them under control, if not completely eliminated. Unless you are allergic to tomatoes, this recipe isn’t dangerous for humans or plants. He is my hero!! Or are other insects eating them? Hi Helen, I’ve gotten the most positive feed back from gardeners that have tried planting allium spp. Last year I hatched and shared over 100 from my yard. Pests that can affect your marijuana plants include aphids, fungus gnats, thrips, green flies, black flies, mosaic virus, spider mites, caterpillars, inchworms, whiteflies, white powdery mildew / white powdery mold, stem rot, and even mammals such as deer or cats! I will let the butterflies out once ready so they won’t be put off laying eggs on the plants by any aphid-busting methods and I also won’t be needing to grow new plants from the infested milkweed. Guess I will just have to wait and see. 8. Hi Ann, if the milkweed had a good root system it should come back even if you cut it back to the ground. It shouldn’t hurt them if the oil is certified pure therapeutic oil… the kind that is safe to ingest. Hi Tony, I live in South/Mid Florida and am building a butterfly garden and am having a bit of an aphid problem and was reading your notes here and you mentioned using several cultivars of milkweeds,, SO please advise which might be the best for this area. Dear Tony, ok two problems..I found slugs on my garden milkweed plants..what to do..thenI have geraniums growing all over and they are chewed up by something..I keeping looking in the plants and cant find the culprit.
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