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.
Pesticides are a pain to use, and they tend to kill more than you want. Our family never has had much, so the thing was to do maximize the yield most efficiently.
Monitor is a restricted use Category 1 pesticide. Word has it it’s parent was a nerve agent developed by the Nazi’s.We used it to kill green peach aphids on potatoes. Green peach aphids don’t survive east Idaho winters, but they get blown in from the Boise area every year. They carry a leafroll virus that cuts down yields in potatoes. Too much disease and you can’t sell your spuds for seed. Plus it causes a brown ring in the spud. Perhaps you have seen a potato chip with a brown ring? Bingo. It won’t hurt you. It just doesn’t make the chip as appealing, especially in a marketing sense.
Is the imidicloprid Marathon by chance? I’m not as familiar with it.
Pretty sure the only things he uses are Malathion and Sevin.
But, then again, he would stop at nothing to save his garden. :-)