No wonder I can't stop the #aphids in my apartment and the balcony.

This is a plant on our street, almost all of them are covered with them.

In all my years here, I've never seen so many aphids on street plants, specially not in June m

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Aphids, Aphids and more Aphids.

Fighting almost daily with big infestation of Aphids on my indoor hydroponic peppers and herbs.

Almost running out of neem oil and need to find a source to buy at reasonable price.

#Aphids
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Almost all my indoor plants are infested with aphids.

Did the second wash of them with soapy water and Neem oil. I'm not going to let them win this year.

Put a few of them outside and sprayed them very well.

#Aphids
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I can't believe it's just the start of sprilring and I'm having serious #aphids infestation on my indoor hydroponic system.

Didn't see it until I saw 100s of them kn the balcony door's glass.

Sprayed with soapy water and #Neem oil yesterday and today. But so far no sign of them dying.

I don't want to lose the battle like last year.

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Never thought having aphids problems in December!

My Dill plants outside stopped growing and I was kind of surprised, so after looking closer, I found almost all of them full of aphids sucking them dry.

I honestly thought my big problems were gone when the nights are cooler, but I was wrong. Time to spray with soapy water and been oil mix and find a way to get money to buy some more Neem oil as my bottle is almost empty so is my bank account.

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One of my #Jalapeno peppers is about 90cm tall.

Remember it was full of #aphids and was afraid it would die.
Cleaned it up and trimmed it to the bare minimum and been feeding it organic #fertilizer and 1L of water every day.

It is full of #flowers and already picked about 20 peppers from if. It is my most successful plant in a long time. Specially since it got a new pot filled with old soil mixed with #vermiculite and compost.

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Have a problem and a dilemma.

This is my Kratky Hydroponic pepper plants.

It has been growing so well in the past 6 weeks and has plenty of peppers and flowers.

But, the problem is that the 5L container is almost empty and I had problem with refilling #Kratky units before and really really don't want to harm this beautiful plant.

I was thinking about moving it into a 20L bucket, and trim the roots before putting it into althe 2/3rd filled bucket. But I don't want to show k it either.

The other problem is that it's covered with #aphids. Forgot to spray it with soapy water in the past few days and it's now have 1000 of those little buggers sucking the juice out of my lovely plant.

I have to make the decision today.

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Sad reality of organic gardening!

Since I'm refusing to use any chemicals to fight the bugs my lovely neighbor is feeding and sending to me on a daily basis, I have to fight them almost every day.

This sad little guy is what is left of one of my Chilli peppers who survived the soil gnats.

I cut off all the infected leaves, removed all the bugs, washed it off with soapy water and hoping that the nature takes it's magic and bring it back to life.

In the mean time, all I can to do is to focus on those plants that are not as miserable as this one.

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Job done, replanted the #jalapeno #peppers and trimmed it to bare minimum, it has lots of #aphids on it so washed it off and covered the soil with piece of the broken terracotta pot to prevent the bloody pigeon to try and dig into the dirt.

I am hoping that it will come back bigger and better in a few weeks.

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I am really losing my battle!

Can't get rid of the #aphids. Killing a bunch one day, they pop up in another plant. It is a never ending battle and running low on #NeemOil.

Don't think I can buy more Neem oil and may end up using cooking oil instead.

Either that or give up the plants attractingcthe bugs. Hard choice.

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Another day, another bug problem!

Now it's the ants turn!

Wonder if they act as pollinators or placing aphids on the plant to milk them?

Going to look for aphids later.

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This is a #HouseSparrow which I think lives in the loft of my own house.

I've often seen these #birds feeding off something from the underside of #rose #leaves and long suspected that they were feeding off #aphids but I used to think that they only eat #seeds.

Here's confirmation that it is indeed feeding on #greenfly. If you've ever watched the film #ABugsLife then you can appreciate how terrifying these #birds would be to tiny #insects.

I like the interplay of #shadow and #sunlight in this #photograph

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Florfiege jagt Blattläuse / Green lacewing chases aphids / Chrysopidae pourchasse les pucerons

#peertube: https://video.atlanti.se/videos/watch/e80a8308-7ebb-4216-89aa-fe4819124ae1
alternativ #archiveorg: https://archive.org/details/70008

Am Mühlenbach in Linn (Krefeld)

Musik: freakified - Sacrifice CC-BY 3.0
#Linn #Krefeld #Tiere #Fliegen #Niederrhein #Mühlenbach #Insekten #Florfliege #Blattläuse #Animals #Protostome #Arthropod #Insects #Flies #Greenlacewing #Chrysopidae #aphids #pucerons #photography #foto #fotografie #photo #Slideshow #slide