Never saw an aphid till I was infested 1/2 inch thick

My beautiful roses!! I have sprayed Rose RX. I released 1500 ladybugs. Flicked them off, but now branches are too spindly. They are the worst on my Iceberg rose now starting it's 3rd year. I have never had any bugs on any of my roses. I pruned the iceberg back, but how do I get them totally off and make them stay off? Aphids only in my back yard and there have been no changes this year. My front yard doesn' have any. HELP
Thanks
Vicki

Vicki - I am having the same problem, and hate to tell you this, but the aphids have just not found the front yard YET. The Wasps have emerged and they tend to do a great job of reducing the hordes, but the aphids are multiplying faster than I like.
I spray my roses with a water/liquid dishsoap solution. It smothers the aphids, but doesn't affect the eggs. 2 more spray sessions are necessary to do the job, spaced about 5-7 days apart. Aphids covered my Brugmansias & Clerodendrum as soon as I set them out - had to cut off the new growth & start again.
I have used other methods - the soap solution works well. After spraying all the infected plants, I go back around & rinse the soap solution off with plain water. Best time to do this is when it isn't hot - which is just about all the time, lol...

Here's a little tip I learned about 20 years ago and it always works for me. Aphids won't cannibalize, so once thing you can do is scrape as many as possible into a container, mix it with water, put it in the blender, strain, and spray on the plants.

Ok, yeah, but who has time for that, right? So what I do is walk around the gardens looking for the little buggers. When I see a bud loaded with them, I wrap my fingers around the stem and gently roll, moving up over the bud. It squishes the aphids without damaging the plant. They don't come back 'cos they don't find themselves to be too tasty. ;) This has always worked for me.

Now if I could just do something about the black spot!

I do the 'squish' thing, too. Other than that, I recommend neem oil. It's organic but it not only kills the current population, it smothers the eggs, too. The other thing I do is use a jet stream of water to forcefully wash them off. I can live with a certain number, since they are prey for other things, but not when they suffocate a plant to death. Vampire bugs.

I was reading about an organic control, Stylet oil. Useful for many things, including a variety of pests, including Vampire Bugs, as well as anti-fungal.
I will be trying this as soon as I can find it - used widely in hydoponic gardening.

I'll have to google it. I've never heard of Stylet oil, but I'm game for anything that will help, especially as it's antifungal. I wonder how that works. Some anti-fungal oils work by keeping the fungus spores from floating around.

I had never heard of it either until just the other day while reading an article on organic controls. Sounded like mousse for plants...