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pests destroying a pest

judohero

judohero

Ok i need some help. last season i ended up getting aphids in my green house. i lost all but three plants and i have been fighting aphids to this day on my last three plants if i cant get a handle on them im going to have to kill them off. how do i get rid of any of the eggs. or anything like that left in my green house.i need to make sure the area is 100% free before i move this years starters any where near the place. 
 
Cut off every leaf/branch/shoot that the aphids can feed off of.  It'll set the plants back, but they'll regrow.
 
The current aphids will starve, and their eggs will hatch and starve before the plants grow back enough to be fed from.
 
It's all that's ever worked for me with aphids.
 
Lady bugs. You can order them online. I've used the hippy concoctions of mixing soap, garlic, whatever, I've tried safersoap, I've tried blasting them off the plants with water from the hose. Pesticide worked pretty good, but at the end of the day if you miss one or two aphids they come roaring back a few weeks later. NOTHING worked as good as ladybugs. They even laid eggs on my plants so when the larva hatched they brought a second wave of aphid eating machines that wiped out any remaining aphids.
 
judohero said:
Ok i need some help. last season i ended up getting aphids in my green house. i lost all but three plants and i have been fighting aphids to this day on my last three plants if i cant get a handle on them im going to have to kill them off. how do i get rid of any of the eggs. or anything like that left in my green house.i need to make sure the area is 100% free before i move this years starters any where near the place.
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I just wiped out an infestation with ladybugs. Very easy
 
I like ladybugs because they are pretty much available anywhere in early spring I might also try praying mantis this year just because I like them.
 
Nightshade said:
I might also try praying mantis this year just because I like them.
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Found those little bastards eating my ladybugs lol. Supposedly they'll eat pretty much everything.

judohero said:
i will give lady bugs a try as soon as i can move them out of my house
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Make sure you look into how to do it correctly - mist the plants, release them at night, throw a net over the plants if possible, etc
Just saw greenhouse - no need for a net I guess
 
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