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20-07-2010, 04:23 PM
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| | | Good aphid sources
At the moment I've one or two broad beans with black fly and a rose with heavy greenfly (as well as hellebores with an unidentified aphid). Tremendous load of insects and other invertebrates attracted to the aphids: well worth losing a bean or two!  |
20-07-2010, 04:28 PM
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| | | Re: Good aphid sources
When I see a plant in my garden covered in aphids I behave differently to most gardeners as I see it as an attractant to a wide variety of other critters.Definitely worth the sacrifice! |
20-07-2010, 07:44 PM
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| | | Re: Good aphid sources
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Originally Posted by aeshna5  When I see a plant in my garden covered in aphids I behave differently to most gardeners as I see it as an attractant to a wide variety of other critters.Definitely worth the sacrifice! | Whenever I go into friends' gardens and see lots of aphids, my eyes must light up but I don't point them out: not all gardeners feel the same way as me and thee. 
What I didn't mention is that I have ladybirds, harvesters, spiders, mites, predatory bugs, wasps and the usual things but also such a variety of predatory and parasitoid flies and hymenopterans. When I get the time I shall go out there and try to get some photos of these latter.
The odd thing, hardly a hoverfly in my garden at the moment.  |
20-07-2010, 07:54 PM
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| | | Re: Good aphid sources
I totally agree. We lost a vast wildlife food resource when we began spraying cereals against aphids. There must have been millions of tons of aphids just waiting to be ate by birds etc. Not to mention the amount of plant sugar secreted back into the soil.
It did not stop at aphids eother.
In the 1970 and early 80s when we carted straw off the fields as we unloaded the trailer bale by bale the loose bit of trash fell from layer to layer untill it all accumulated on the floor of the wagon. This detritis was literally heaving with minute creatures of many types. By the middle 80s this same detritis was almost barren.
These changes were never measured or as far as I know monitored so have gone unrecorded and unrcognised.
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