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  • From: Nancy Stedman <stedman@rcn.com>
  • To: gardenwriters-on-gardening <gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [gwl-g] aphids
  • Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 21:59:46 -0400

Thanks for the advice. What happened is that I procrastinated about doing anything, and the aphids seem to have left on their own. I don't know if someone ate them, or if I scared them off by squishing a few with my fingers.
Nancy Stedman, NYC

At 04:03 PM 4/18/2004 -0400, you wrote:
Nancy, almost all of the time when someone without at least Baccalaureate
level training or several decades of experience scouting for arthropods that
parasitize plants, it means a large and damaging population.

Therefore, you should use any kind of soap or even ordinary liquid hand
detergent for dishes, or alcohol on a swab or cotton ball. I rarely feel that any
thing that is going to affect other insects is justified in the home
landscape. Large monocultures are a different story. Even if you don't wipe out every
critter that worries you, there will be fewer to reproduce and natural
controls are not much bothered at all. We do have people who perform "plant health
care", but they are a little bit more murderous than physicians. But thinking
about the consequences of one's actions is a subsection of the "golden rule".

Barbara E. Emeneau
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