Timeline for Getting rid of the bugs on the Lotus maculatus
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| Jun 30, 2015 at 0:30 | vote | accept | avernet | ||
| Jun 29, 2015 at 21:36 | answer | added | stormy | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 21:20 | comment | added | stormy | Shoot, avernet, don't know how to do that at this moment. Thanks, tho!! Hey, ants are trying to 'round up' those aphids. They are certainly NOT hurting anything. Ants are cool. These sucking aphids will reduce the vigor of plants. I'd spray at night with NEEM whilst ants (and bees) are in bed. | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 5:25 | comment | added | avernet | @stormy BTW, feel free to post this as an answer, and I'll make sure to accept it, thank you! | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 5:25 | comment | added | avernet | @stormy Yes! And now I see what is going on: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphid#Ant_mutualism. For sure, ants and aphids are working very well there to kill those plants :). To answer your questions, the plants are Lotus maculatus, and I've been told they need to be watered every day. They're in 2 pots, hanging off the roof, so that's just a couple of cups of water every day. This also means that the ants are doing quite a bit of distance to get there, climbing the side of the house, to come down from the string those pots are hanging by. | |
| Jun 28, 2015 at 23:19 | comment | added | stormy | Major aphids...easy, easy to control...spray of water, spray of Safer's soap mixture, Neem...I see a few other possible problems that you need to consider. Could you send more pictures? Where are these plants? How much and often do you water? Answers to these questions are as important as the aphids. Or more...what are these plants, what soil are you using how big of a pot or what is the environment around these plants? | |
| Jun 28, 2015 at 23:04 | history | asked | avernet | CC BY-SA 3.0 |