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pests APHIDS! AH!! Attack!!!!! FASTER PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! KILL!

imaguitargod

imaguitargod

Those little bastards are all over my tobacco plants (the plants don't seem to mind....yet). So far I've spraded the crap out of them with The Garden Safe 3-in-1 stuff but no decrease in populus.

Yesturday a lady bug flew into my hand while I was out on a walk, so I braught him all the way home with me. I placed him on the infected plants and this morning he came around the tobacco leaf and said hi to me. He's found a new home....time to bring him some more friends to play with........no I just have to find the money to buy them...that may not come until next monday.....gah!
 
ACK!!! ASk your new found friend to bring all his relation over for an Aphid feast!!! Best of luck exterminating them!
 
I hope you manage to kill all the aphids, I saw a Ladybird (the English version) on Saturday and thought about taking it home but I saw it on top of a litter bin and didn't fancy a 'tainted one' and wasn't sure how I'd manage to take it home with the dog on one hand and Ladybird in the other. At least the little thing had the manners to say "hi", I guess you said "hi" back.
 
Darn,

I wish I had more Aphid Chasers laying around - I'd send you a couple. AJ posted a link where to get them from - a search should turn it up.

One of my bhuts had a nasty infestation, plus some blooms, so I decided to try it rather than a banned pesticide I still have. Let me tell you, in two days nary an aphid remained.

We encountered aphids all the time raising tobacco, but with thousands of plants, we never paid them any heed. They really didn't seem to stunt much growth, but then they never really showed up en masse until late-July or early August when the plants could outgrow them. But with only a couple of plants, I empathize.

Mike
 
POTAWIE said:
My tobacco was loaded with aphids but they did no noticable damage and now they are gone.
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And you have the same tobacco as I do, hmm....seems they like it.

I'll look around locally for Aphid Chasers.
 
Have you tried a custom hot pepper and soap spray on them?

blender a habanero, few drops of soap, smigen of borax and few drops of canola or olive oil.
The oil and borax can be left out first.

The aphids may turn red from the heat!
 
Use the blaster!

Best of luck mang, I'm trying to fig why my morich is gettign yellow and curly all of a sudden when all the others aint, hell the choc hab is thinkng it's a tree now.....argh.
 
Nute said:
Have you tried a custom hot pepper and soap spray on them?

blender a habanero, few drops of soap, smigen of borax and few drops of canola or olive oil.
The oil and borax can be left out first.

The aphids may turn red from the heat!
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I have a resipe that I use but have been holding off on that. I want to get ladybugs first.
 
I can't seem to beat these creatures - I have used soapy water, OTC counter sprays, Aphid Chaser, even DDT on some plants that didn't have blooms. Everything works - for a few days. And then they return.

Thyme is suppose to ward them off but I think it attracts them. Only plants sitting beside the thyme are infected. A few just a few feet away have no aphids and about 25 plants on the back porch are aphid free. Needless to say, I sprayed them again and moved them to the back yard, but not close to the other peppers.

Mike
 
Have you ever heard of or tried a tea from a nearby plant that has no aphids sprayed on the peppers?

These sprays get rid of them all for a few days:
Neem oil based:
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This one works very well with canola oil and pyrethrin:
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Lacewings and Ladybugs
Ehow.com: Avoid planting aphid-attracting plants, such as birch trees, and instead grow plants such as white sweet clover, spearmint, sweet fennel and Queen Anne's lace, which attract and house the lacewings, ladybugs and other insects that feed on aphids.
 
Because each type of plant is a different type of insect magnet it is up to us to use plants which cancel out the bugs by using at least one predator attractor plant for type of attacker on a near by plant.

So following is a list of aphid predators.
If we place plants which attract these predators around the peppers then the aphids will be gone for good.

Hoverfly larvae (Syrphidae) a number of species particularly in the Syrphinae i.e. Syrphus ribesii and Episyphus balteatus.
Aphid Midge larvae (Cecidomyiidae) i.e. Aphidoletes aphidomyza;
Flower Bugs (Anthocoridae) i.e. Anthocoris confusus, some Anthocoris species live and feed on only one genus of aphids, i.e.
Anthocoris gallarum-ulmi feeds only on Schizoneura sp. on elms.
Lacewings (Neuroptera) i.e. Chrysoperla carnea. Lacewings normally only eat aphids as larvae but some adult Hemerobiidae will take aphids.
Chamaemyiidae, Leucopsis spp. larvae.
Chloropidae, Thaumatomyia spp. larvae, specialise on root aphids.
Phoridae, Phora spp. larvae, specialise on root aphids.
Solitary Wasps, Specidae, Passaloecus spp. the adult females stock their cells of their larvae with aphids.
Parasitic Wasps, Parasitica, there are many of these and some are specialists on aphids and some even on only one genus some examples are the Braconids (Braconidae) Monoctonus pseudoplatini and Trioxys cirsii and the Aphelinid (Aphelinidae) Aphelinus flavus all on the Sycamore Aphid Drepanosiphon plantanoides. Other examples are the Braconids Xenostigmus bifasciatus on Cinara spp., Ephedrus californicus on the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphum pisum, Aphidius sonchi on the aphid Hyperomyzus lactucae and Aphidius nigripes on Macrosiphum euphorbiae.
Facultative Predators and Parasites
There are many predatory insects which will eat aphids if given the chance these include, Earwigs (Dermaptera), Bush Crickets and Katydids (Orthoptera) especially in the early instars, the Hemipterans, Damsel Bugs (Nabidae) and Mirid Bugs (Miridae), the Coleopterans, Ground Beetles (Carabidae) and Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae), the Dipterans, Stilt Legged Flies (Micropezidae) and various members of the Dolichopodidae, Empidae and the Hymenopterans Ants (Formicidae) and Wasps (Vespidae). Apart from these aphids are also consumed by various Spiders (Araneae) and Harvestmen (Opilones).

A company online dedicated to beneficial insects- they will know for sure what plants to put around peppers and be able to supply.

Green Lacewing Larvae feed primarily on soft-bodied garden pests - primarily aphids. The larvae are a natural enemy of aphids but also feed on other garden pests including mites and pest insect eggs...
http://www.thebeneficialinsectco.com/green-lacewing-larvae.htm
 
I had a problem with aphids and tried the sprays but eventually started using something a bit more effective...like this...
Killem' all and let God sort 'em out.

Cheers, TB.
 
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