Greenfly

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!

Not a single greenfly here yet.

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.

I've seen whitefly in the GH.

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.

^^^ Gooseberry sawfly caterpillars? https://www.rhs.org.uk/biodiversity/gooseberry-sawfly

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.

^^^ Gooseberry sawfly caterpillars? https://www.rhs.org.uk/biodiversity/gooseberry-sawfly

Yep, nastly little things. I'd happily do without them in my diversity