Tropicals & Tender Perennials: It's Passiflora Time In The City, 1 by GordonHawk

GordonHawk wrote:
Kyle...well thanks..
Victoria...wellyestheydohaveawayofhatchinginonespot...if you getthem then you stand a shot at them.. once they are dispursed overeverywhere... it's more work... Gee I hateto say it.. soapywaterisn'tgoingtogivethem the knockoutpunchto ridyourselffrom them... IMHO...ya got to have some posion.. something to dispatch them no doubt about it.. andpolutethe area so any new ones die also.. inside...well Ispray and leave in the morning for the day..after wiping up any dripping.. I use a coctail of perhaps 4 deadly killers..two ofthem are systemic two are contact killers... and I rotate myfloramite in between.. with the phermone Stirup has to get them to the death on their own.. but they are fast to reappear...
I was looking at the flowers on my Clerodendrum bungi.. and went for the camera.. I took the picture..went and downloaded it to the computer...then as I was viewing it... I saw these little black bumps on the flower...and thought to myself they looked like bugs...going to the plant I see the entire flower head was awash in these black aphids.. I swear they hatched in the time it took to shoulder the camera and shoot.. onceIsee them.. andspray...thye are knockedway back...reapplication before I notice them again... and then when I notice anymore have arrived or have hatched out... the flower that gave them away.. Gordon