Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Milkweed , 1 by Lily_love

Lily_love wrote:
Sometimes, I will just have to hose them down. Some gentle scrubing to rub off the little aphids. Once they fall off the plant and land on the ground, they die because they can't crawl back up. If you use insecticide that will hurt your butterflies/caterpillars because the plants absorb the chemical, then when the caterpillars eat them they'll be poisoned.

When the weather was cooler, aphids were presence here. Ladybugs kept them in check. Now, the weather is too hot for those little soft body bugs. I don't see them anymore here, and I don't use hardly any chemical here.