pests Aphids?

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Nicolas_bsas

Hi there.
Summer´s approaching this part of the planet, and with it, comes... well, you know already.
I had just got rid of a red spider mite plague (well, almost... but it´s under control), only to find out these bugs, which i can´t identify. I think they´re aphids, but not 100% sure.
So, first of all, are they aphids or what?
And if they are, how do I get rid of them? I fought the acari mainly with neem oil and potassic soap (and my very own fingers too... one by one will they fall). To my surprise, it proved to be pretty much effective.
Should I try with that? Or do i unleash an imidacloprid storm? I would prefer not to, since they are already growing fruits, but would have no problem in doing so if that´s what they require. The plague is still small and manageable, by the way.
 
Here are those evil bugs:
 
Little size, as you can see: around 1mm

 
This is the best I could get for zooming... he wouldn´t stay still!

 
In a leaf, with the typical sucking + fungus damage:

 
Another one (like I said, most of the leaves are not so damaged... the plant is doing fine)

 
 
One last thing. I´m getting leaves with this... thing. It´s like a leaf rash, or white little spots. Is it connected to aphids or whatever the bug is? Is it bad, or what?
 
 

 

 
Thanks in advance for your help. Any clue will be greatly appreciated  ;)
 
 
charlie5heen said:
Very hard to stop, I bet those are aphiods.  I used sevin dust to kill them off completely.
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You must not have the new and improved aphids.  Wive uses seven in her vegitable garden and indoor plants.  It stopped doing anything for aphids a couple years ago.  Now she uses something called Bug B Gone.  Works, but willing to bet in a few years it wont anymore.  Same thing is happening with fleas.  Nothing works on the dogs anymore.  We bathe them with Dawn and it works better than the flea shampoo, but the minute they go outside they get them again.

I am starting to think super bugs.  Outside, aphids will migrate to something more tasty when I spray them with pepper spray.  Indoors, once they are in the plant room I am sunk.  Tried the pepper spray, but after gassing myself I learned they need something more tasty to migrate to.  Today, I bring nothing indoors to the plant room and I am OK.
 
 
Read on another thread about companion planting of chilli's with basil and mint plants .

It's working so far to keep them away. Also we had a basil next to a fly trap type plant on the window sill in the kitchen until the wife threw it away. No aphids the whole time the basil was there, then within a week the fly trap was smothered in them.

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Aphids
Wash them off with water is the main way to reduce them, cup the leaves with your hands if you can so their "underwater" . Aphid wasps are the best way to control them, ladybugs dont do much of anything, placed several on my plants and nothing.
 
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Well, thank you very much for your help.
In sum, the main line of attack (well, technically, the bugs are the attackers... I´m just trying to defend my plants from them) will be trying to wash them off with water and then get close some basil or mint, which I already have.
 
I will do it soon, and keep you updated.
 
 
AJ Drew said:
 
aphids will migrate to something more tasty when I spray them with pepper spray
 
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You know, mines seem more to like capsaicin than to be repeled by it... It´s really easy to find some of them at first sight: lots of them will always be settled on the pepper walls. Not really clever bugs, because they can´t (luckily) eat it, but that´s what they do... I can´t help thinking that they are eating the leaves just because they can´t eat the peppers.
 
dragonsfire said:
 Aphid wasps are the best way to control them, ladybugs dont do much of anything, placed several on my plants and nothing.
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Good tip, but wouldn´t work indoors... I don´t like bees, let alone having wasps in my living, hahahaha,  :P
 
I don't know much but they look like leaf hoppers. They don't resemble the aphids that are in the photo of dragonsfire.
 
I have them both right now - leaf hoppers look longer and more like miniature cicadas then aphids which look more oval.
 
Again, take with a grain of salt as its my first season - treatment I'm using is review under plant leaves daily and squash everything that isnt a lady beetle.
 
Sev said:
I don't know much but they look like leaf hoppers. They don't resemble the aphids that are in the photo of dragonsfire.
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These ones don´t fly nor jump... I´m guessing hoppers would do something like that, wouldn´t they?
 
 
dragonsfire said:
Aphid wasps are tiny, doble the size of aphids 2-3mm about lol
 
https://greenmethods.com/aphidius/
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Ah, hahahahahahah, I see... That´s a not a so uncomfortable idea as having real wasps flying round my head when I´m having dinner.  :P
It could work indeed. Though never heard they sell them here.
 
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