"....they all went to the aphidtheater"
/johnny
Have you been using the garden to recyle your beer? Has your dog?
Aphids messed me up.. I used seven dust.. waiting to get flamed.. but that’s my post and I stick to it..
I noticed the absence of aphids on my rhodie blooms this year. Usually, the buds are crawling with aphids, but this year - nothing!
I live in Longview, WA.
We had a very cold period a few weeks back after a warming period. It was cold enough to frost. I wonder if that would have killed off any potential aphid army?
Thank the Lord...and move on !!!!!
Have you been gardening organically over the past several years? There’s oftentimes a lagging effect of gardening without synthetics that isn’t fully realized for a few years. Maybe the aphid predators just caught up with them?
If you don’t want to go the insecticide route go with Ladybugs. I think you can order them live either on line or ask at a local garden center. Ladybugs just eat them things right up!
HAARP!
More seriously, are your ants gone?
Here in Michigan, the few hot days we had in April brought a lot of the bugs out early only to be killed by the frost.
It’s been an odd spring in many places. All blooming things put on a show here, too. Can’t say about aphids since I went to a distinctly casual, low maintenance approach to my landscaping years ago and just wouldn’t have noticed and don’t have anything that would be all that adversely affected even if there were an infestation.
But, the lightning bugs are just amazing this year, normally not even seen until June, they’ve been out in force since early May, lighting up trees on the edges of fields like Christmas twinkle lights.
Very odd, but beautiful.
No aphids on my roses. I don’t have stink bugs either, although my neighbors all do.
Probably means I’m too nasty even for bugs.
Don’t know what state you are in, but here due to the early warmth, the late cold, and maybe the great amount of water at the right time, our roses look and smell awesome this year. Usually they are eaten up by some sort of insect before they get so many blooms.
They’re all down here in Alabama.
Ladybugs LOVE aphids! Please do not kill them and they will RICHLY reward you my EATING and KILLING all Aphids! Plus they are pretty and kinda cute to look at.
"....they all went to the aphidtheater"
Did your state or county agricultural dept do a mass lady bug release? Are you noticing more lady bugs? NC did this a few years ago and we had fewer aphids.
Nematoids.
Enjoy it while you can.
We had no chiggers last summer in Texas, first time in my many decades of summers that I can remember not being chewed on. Didn’t even need OFF.
Why? It was so dry here there was no grass. Chiggers don’t live on bare ground or dead blades.
You’re probably just experiencing a temporary phenomenon.
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