As soon as your favorite flowers or vegetable plants pop up, aphids are ready to pounce. They'll stay on the stems and underside of leaves until fall, sucking up the sap until your plants wither and die. They secrete a gooey substance called honeydew, which ants feed on. Because they weaken your plants, they sometimes act as conduits to disease which they spread from plant to plant. Fortunately, there are many ways to control aphids, and treatments vary with the kinds of plants afflicted.
If aphids are on your roses, use
Ortho® RosePride® Insect Killer Ready-To-Use
Ortho® Bug-B-Gon MAX® Lawn & Garden Insect Killer Ready-to-Spray
Ortho® Bug-B-Gon MAX™ Lawn & Garden Insect Killer Dust
Ortho® Elementals™ Garden Insect Killer
If they're on your ornamentals, use
Ortho® Bug B Gon MAX® Lawn & Garden Insect Killer Ready-to-Spray
On edible plants, use
Ortho® Bug-B-Gon® MAX® Lawn & Garden Insect Killer Ready-to-Spray
Ortho® Elementals™ Insecticidal Soap.
Aphids, also called plant lice, are small (up to ¼ inch) soft–bodied insects that infest most garden plants. Some aphids spend their entire lives on one type of plant; others infest different varieties. Most gardeners can readily identify the green aphids, but black, brown, yellow and gray aphids are also common.
