Mine were meant as a /jk.
It must be me.
I thought anyone could tell them apart easily.
BTW, my father is a Grand Master Gardener of The Most High. If you are interested, I could ask him for advice on how to deal with the nasties. He also has his Master's in Agronomy, and spent his whole life in agriculture. So he knows his stuff.
Have you tried Malathion?
I think Parathion was banned. And Monitor 4 Spray may have been banned. Monitor is some nasty stuff. We asked the spray pilot one day how you could tell if you got a dose. He said oh, you just stop breathing.
Is your father a FReeper?
The cat got bad fleas which got into several areas, sprayed multiple times with that stuff I got for outside in combo with 4 months of Advantage on the cat. It worked but required several apps, hadn't had a prob w/fleas for years. Bayer Advanced Rose and Flower insect spray, prob shouldn't use in the house but couldn't afford an exterminator and had a bunch on hand.
Didn't know your were joking ;-).
Oh, they don't like chrysanthemums and four o'clocks will kill them if they eat those. I've got some yellow seed of those I need to plant. Seems they like yellow the most, but will go for things you'd least expect.
You could ask your father if it wouldn't be too much trouble. I've called the local ext office at least 3 times, sent me literature; some of them haven't kept up with developments as much as I have. The web has been more of a help for me.
My first acquaintance with those nasty aphids was detasseling corn as a teen; they infest the tassels. Ick. Ick. Ick. BTW there are dark aphids, too; all I've seen are the green ones. You can pick and brush them off but tedious. Believe it or not they will infest poppy plants, too.
People out east have been fighting these horrid bugs for a long time. There are years when they just endure it. All sorts of things they try. There was a lady in central IL who got the bugs so bad, they'd bounce off the house. She claimed to have gotten rid of them with water, dish soap, lemon juice and vinegar, but we never could find the correct concentration.
I picked all the buds off my roses during the season, another pain, they like the leaves, too, and getting in my birch and other trees, not much point in it.
Tornado sirens have been going off, lifting shopping carts in the air at Target. Hope my kids places are ok.