On Mon, 12 May 2008 13:49:55 +0100, Charlie Pridham
wrote:


Yes, Lupin aphids is what they are called! they came over from america in
the 1980 and took hold in Cornwall because of the quantity of Tree lupins
(they used to use them to stabilise the china clap waste tips) they
quickly spread all over europe and unlike all the other aphids seem to
actually kill the plant
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

They don't seem to have got to New Zealand yet. The masses of "wild"
lupins we saw there were totally free of aphids.

Pam in Bristol