Beginner Gardening: i have slugs, 0 by GrammyJo

GrammyJo wrote:
OK you guys, I tried to remember who it was that said they LIKED to squash aphids with their fingers (ICK!!) but I can't. I've only got a few minutes right now but I'd said I would post a couple of photos I took of some aphids in my 'flower patch' last year. So here they are (check out those funky and mysterious 'orange looking' things on the back of the one aphid.....doesn't looked like 'poop' or what the ants consider nectar, so what IS it??). Also check out that look of shear contentment on the ants face in the other one!! LOL Oh....and this is a small section of the aphids. I cropped the photos to get a better close-up. There were waaaaayyy more aphids than this on this plant (or weed?).

This message was edited Jul 21, 2009 6:44 PM