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Sat, Jul 30, 11 at 16:57
| So... I was out under one of my austrees and I saw something I have never seen before. On some of the branches, mainly new growth, there are all these tiny little black bugs. Literally hundreds of them.
I sprayed them off (as many as I could anyways from some of the branches with a hose on spray setting, I would have use the kill setting if I had one). I've also noticed lots of ants and flies around. They seem to be mainly on the branches, not the leaves. I also took a picture but I don't know how to put the pic on here. |
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| Perhaps, aphids. [img src="jpg url here"/] replace: And, insert a jpg url between the quotation marks. Steve
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- Posted by dan_staley 5b/SS 2b AHS 6-7 (My Page) on Sat, Jul 30, 11 at 20:20
| Those trees are bug magnets. Might be black aphids. Dan |
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- Posted by Bob_In_Colorado none (My Page) on Sat, Jul 30, 11 at 23:14
| Are Black Aphids any worse than regular green ones? |
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| They are both horrible in my experience, though the green ones are more common in my yard. Most years they don't show up in large enough numbers to be a real problem, but when they have a population boom it can devastate whatever plant they're on. I use Safer soap and water and can usually get rid of them without killing off all the ladybugs. |
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| I've got a sweet cherry tree that gets covered with those things, every year. I need to figure out a way to spray it early enough to knock them back, and then let the natural predators build up a population. They also will infest willow trees. And then come the wasps, by the hundreds, to feed on them. |
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