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My lovely climbing rose have become infested with aphids the size of a dog. Well, not quite that big, but big enough that I feel them pop between my fingers. They're ruining it. I have a very unhappy potentilla and mint plant with the same problems

heard that boiling up rhubarb leaves and straing liquid after can be an effective deterrent with aphids, I dont know if this is true but I am giving it a try, I would like to find out more about other plants that i can use as a liquid or other deterrants

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Sap-sucking aphids are problematic for currant bushes. In spring, they cause the foliage to become blistered and puckered, as well as discolouring areas, leaving yellowish-green or red patches. The aphids then fly to hedge woundwort, a wildflower

My growing onion sets have been attacked by little green bugs for the fourth time now - can anybody help? I didn't think aphids were supposed to like onions! I can get rid of them initially using soapy water but they keep coming back! They seem

the leaves on our young apple tree are starting to curl up, and we think it's because of aphids - loads of tiny black insects are covering the underside of the leaves! does anyone have any advice on what to do? is there a quick solution? - we

few weeks, stopping two weeks prior to the show. In the final week we'll just remove the flower heads that are going over.As spring advances, so do the pests. We've had our first outbreak of aphids, and have responded by spraying the plants

I'm watching my lupins like a hawk as some years they are smothered in the most enormous aphids, no sign on anything yet this year.... My rose bush is getting the full on aphid treatment on all new growth. I've been spraying with washing up liquid

Minute plant-feeding insects within the super family Aphidoidea. Commonly known as greenfly, blackfly or plant lice.

Have had my crab apple tree for about 10 years. Woolly aphid appeared 2 summer's ago. they are disfigering the branches and seem to over winter on the tree. Is that possible? They make a mess of the plants underneath. I don't use pesticides, has