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I shot a real close up picture of these little creatures. The neem oil did the trick. I might add that I did end up scraping them off the branches. Will do as others have suggested in a week I will retreat the tree. Thanks again for everyones help. Richard
Thank You Richard for the close-up. These little guys are hard to see when there is only a few of them. My small 184-15 was always droopy until I spotted these and took them off. The tree recovered nicely.
The best way too rid them is a home made natural pesticide,one part liquid soap,one part vegetable oil,twenty part water just dont spray on a hot day cause it could burn ur leaves.
You can say that again. They are only 1~2 mm in length. Really put the optics to a test for resolution. The image is a stacked image composed of 13 individual frames otherwise you would never get enough depth of feel to get everything in focus. Mocatta, I went the commercial route and put neet oil on them and thus far most are now dead. I had to scrape the limbs off and clip some leaves that were infested. I will keep your remedy in my book so if I get a revisit from the pest I will give it a try too.
I wonder if a package of ladybugs would end them. I saw a few on my tree and I clean them off and that was it, they did not have babies. I guess you ought to catch before their procriation, huh?
Alcohol, Rub it all over the branch. Then drink what is left after the rub.
Lady bugs would probably do the trick but getting them to stay put might be another issue. Now using the alcohol is viable. But that could really get expensive as Russian Vodka would probably have the highest proof on the market. Drinking what might be left over, you would end up not caring if you got the aphids in the first place (LOL).