PestmediumApr–Aug

Aphids

Aphidoidea

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How to spot it

You will find that aphids are the most common sucking pests in your garden. They sit in dense colonies on soft shoot tips, suck plant sap and excrete sticky honeydew, on which black sooty mold settles.

Severely infested shoots become stunted, and aphids also transmit viruses.

Prevention

Encourage beneficials such as ladybirds and hoverflies with flowering border strips; they usually keep aphids in check.

You can spray small colonies simply with water or crush them.

Avoid overfertilising with nitrogen, because tender growth tissue especially attracts aphids.

Affected plants

These plants in our database are especially susceptible.

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