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Ditto on the whitefly.
Try an insecticidal soap, and after dusk so as not to damage any
late-
foraging bees.
(Bees need all the friends they can get these days).

Indeed. I have been exploring the possibility of putting some hives on
my property just to let the colonies thrive (I don't need the honey).
I have not had anyone definitely tell me that this is a good thing
though.

We have no shortage of carpenter bees, which I dispatch with a squash
racquet