I am about to pull my hair out battling the aphids on my brugs in the GH. i washed down half my brugs with water today out side the GH and just left them out. Tomorrow i am going to have to do the other half . I am ready to just set fire to my Gh and never over winter anything again!!
The aphids are winning!!
It will get better once you get things outside. Did you try the Raid flying insect spray? It's done the best job killing them for me.
poppy sue i will try this I have sprayed milathion spray and it worked for awhile,and now like over night they are back and in force. It's like i get a bud started and they smell it.LOL i mixed up some seven spray today and went to spray everything down, and my my sprayer decided to drizzle instead of spray, i got frustrated and went for the water hose ,When i got out there i realized My son went in my Gh today ( he is three) and had previously gotten into my MIl's paint for the house and painted my pruners, broke off my first bloom on my Brug in there, and hid my other two sprayers that had my fertilizer, and super thrive mix in them, I still haven't found them. needless to say i was upset, he also took it upon his self in thirty minutes,( he did all this in thirty minutes) when i thought he was in side at his grannies next door,( our yards are fenced and connected) to paint the tiller, so now i have a white tiller in stead of a red one.He did pretty good i guess he didn't get but a few spots of paint on himself.
LOL Sounds like he had fun. Too bad you didn't.
Amanda get them out of the GH. They are safe to 35 degrees at night when the following day will be warm or at least for me they are and I have been doing it for a couple of years. Mine have been sitting in the yard for a month now. I got them bad this year to so as soon as the temps started staying above freezing I took them out. I tried the Avid and none of my plants liked it. I may have made it too strong.
Watch out for your boy around the brugs, Amanda. They are poisonous if he eats them. Sounds like you have your hands full! LOL
I use Palmolive soap in a hand sprayer. I use it strong! About 15 ccs to a hand sprayer size. It always works for me if not in one spray, in 2!
Another thing that works great is Bayer Tree and Scrub systemic. It is expensive but it is easy to use (just mix in water and pour by roots) and it lasts a year. It kills aphids dead!
oh kell i will have to try this I have carpal tunnel syndrome in my hands and wrist, and using the sprayer kills me. having to do that over and over just made me want to give up on plants, thanks for the info everyone, atleast i am not alone.
Amanda, I hope you soon get rid of them. I've had a few but they haven't been too bad this winter.(knock on wood)
My back greenhouse was infested with them. You can see them in this pic. The ladybugs found them, though, and that helped a lot. When I took them out of the greenhouse I sprayed them all down with a real good strong spray of water, and that combined with the ladybugs and the systemic Kell is talking about completely got rid of my aphid problem.
I use insectisidail soap on mine but just learned an intersting fact.
over time garden bugs like aphids, white flies, and not good bugs will get used to the same sprays just like we get immuned to medicines. you need to change up once and awhile so the new ones are the ones who only got a tiny spray and survive dont get immuned to them in future generations.
hope this helps a little.
i hate them too but i guess we all have them. Marie
What the name of green/yellow very tiny bugs? I found them under on brug leaves. Even I found full of spidermites on S. white brug.... I had to take leaves off and throw it away and sprayed it with spray.
I would do a search on Google for mites and another on aphids. Look under Images and see if any of the pictures look like what you have. If you make an identification, you can go to the thread about Recipes in this forum and find something you can mix up to spray them with. Good Luck. I hate bugs!!
sounds like aphids, i need a picture of spider mites i have yet to kno what they look like.
Amanda: I had mites last week, BAD! They are smaller than aphids and look like little tiny specs on the undersides of your brug leaves. Mine were reddish brown and when you brush them with your finger they smear. They hate water too, so a strong shot with my hose on the "mist" setting was all it really took. The next day I found a few that had escaped my efforts, and I gave them a shot with Schultz Garden Safe for Roses and Flowers, and they are gone. Its a Pyrethrum based spray made from Chrysanthemums. I hope you can get them under control! Its cold and rainy here today, but the next pretty day we have, mine are all going outside for the season.
Here are some spider mites
And some more...
thanks poppy sue i haven't had them I guess I am lucky on that one huh?
Sue: mine didn't look like that and there was no web. Wonder what I had??? Thought they were mites... Hmmm, gonna have to research this one.
They don't always make webs. Those photos are magnified and mites only look like little teeny specks to the naked eye. There are also several different species of spidermites. I keep a pocket-scope to check for them. ... otherwise I usually don't notice then until the damage is obvious.