Pepper pods drying and dropping

[saiias]

Hi,
 
I am new to growing peppers.
I am growing ghost pepper, that birds eye , that red hot and bell peppers.
 
Till now my plants are healthy and setting pods. But recently I found that healthy pods are drying out and dropping.
This happened with Bell pepper and this morning I found it happened with one pod on ghost pepper.
 
On examining closely, I found these little bugs on the pods. Can you please help me identifying them and the best course of action to get rid of them?

 

[Doelman]

Looks like aphids, spray some neem oil on your plants.
 
As for the flowers dropping, it happens.  If they're all falling off you probably need to adjust something.  Do a search on this page, there's been a list of reasons for flower drop that's been posted almost every day.

 

[saiias]

Most of the plant is healthy. Only the flowers/pods that have these bugs are dropping. 
I will try neem oil.
 
Thank you.

 

[bongcloud]

Definitely aphids.

 

[Guatemalan Insanity Pepper]

+1 on aphids
 
 
however some pod and flower drop is normal 
excessive flower and new pods falling off can be any number of problems though.
if its just a few, don't worry about that, so much as controlling the aphids. 
Neem is good, but Azamax is better    still Organic, but stronger, and not systemic or any crazy pesticide thats gonna kill off bees or something beneficial.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azadirachtin
 
 
If anyone else reading this knows of and can site reference to a better natural organic pesticide that wont be harmful to bees or other beneficials please correct me. {yes i use Ladybugs in my overwinter room out in the garage, they freak out the wife less than mantis  }

 

[saiias]

+1 on aphids
 
 
however some pod and flower drop is normal 
excessive flower and new pods falling off can be any number of problems though.
if its just a few, don't worry about that, so much as controlling the aphids. 
Neem is good, but Azamax is better    still Organic, but stronger, and not systemic or any crazy pesticide thats gonna kill off bees or something beneficial.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azadirachtin
 
 
If anyone else reading this knows of and can site reference to a better natural organic pesticide that wont be harmful to bees or other beneficials please correct me. {yes i use Ladybugs in my overwinter room out in the garage, they freak out the wife less than mantis [emoji38] }

Thank you.

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