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Greenfly - toomanytommytoes - 13-05-2025
Is any one else having to dodge clouds of aphids? I've never seen this before, they're everywhere! When I went cycling at the weekend they were getting in my eyes, mouth, nose and ears!
RE: Greenfly - SarrissUK - 13-05-2025
Not a single greenfly here yet.
RE: Greenfly - Small chilli - 13-05-2025
Had a few on over wintering foxglove I’d not noticed, growing out of the side of the bed in the tunnel. But that’s it.
RE: Greenfly - Veggie - 13-05-2025
I've seen whitefly in the GH.
RE: Greenfly - JJB - 14-05-2025
I've been squishing green/blackfly from the rose buds for a couple of days. The kale flowers had a few on them and the aphids are taking up positions on the tips of the raspberries and blackcurrants. We're in for an infestation. PS I found baby caterpillars eating the gooseberry leaves too.
RE: Greenfly - Veggie - 14-05-2025
^^^ Gooseberry sawfly caterpillars? https://www.rhs.org.uk/biodiversity/gooseberry-sawfly
RE: Greenfly - toomanytommytoes - 14-05-2025
Count yourselves lucky, aphids up the nose is not a nice experience! They've been around in their thousands in late afternoon/early evening, swarms of them floating around from ground level to a few metres up in the air, but it seems like they're starting to reduce in number now.
RE: Greenfly - JJB - 14-05-2025
(14-05-2025, 12:54 PM)Veggie Wrote: ^^^ Gooseberry sawfly caterpillars? https://www.rhs.org.uk/biodiversity/gooseberry-sawfly
Yep, nastly little things. I'd happily do without them in my diversity
RE: Greenfly - Scarlet - 15-05-2025
(13-05-2025, 10:35 AM)toomanytommytoes Wrote: Is any one else having to dodge clouds of aphids? I've never seen this before, they're everywhere! When I went cycling at the weekend they were getting in my eyes, mouth, nose and ears!My husband went cycling yesterday and said exactly the same!
RE: Greenfly - toomanytommytoes - 15-05-2025
(15-05-2025, 04:50 AM)Scarlet Wrote:Must remember to wear my sunglasses this weekend, flies in the eye is the worst and most dangerous when on a bike. I can close my mouth and breath through my nose (and hopefully not inhale an aphid straight into my lungs), and in the ears they just tickle.(13-05-2025, 10:35 AM)toomanytommytoes Wrote: Is any one else having to dodge clouds of aphids? I've never seen this before, they're everywhere! When I went cycling at the weekend they were getting in my eyes, mouth, nose and ears!My husband went cycling yesterday and said exactly the same!