Re: [CH] yello mites
Michael Bailes (frgntgar@ozemail.com.au)
Tue, 26 Jan 1999 19:59:23 +1100
At 8:12 AM -0500 23/1/99, Byron Bromley wrote:
>Michael
>
>No not wasp. no wings
>
>Have Anna Carr's "The Color Book of Garden Insects"
>Nothing in this book even close to it.
>
>Byron
Really strange. In my garden on a "Butterfly bush"/Asclepias. I have bright
yellow Aphids!
I have NEVER seen them before.
They look like aphids and the ants seem to be herding and milking them as
usual.
Fascinating.
I left them alone.
I could take a picture of them but the digital camera I had (a lone of) was
stolen last week along with a few other irreplaceable items like one's
sense of security.
They should be easy to get rid of with a hose or an garden pesticide
Nearly all home-garden pesticides are now pyrethrum based synthetic or natural-
a lot better/safer than "The good old days"
Michael B