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All of a sudden I have tiny black bugs on some of my plants. I was thinking
spider mites but I'm just not sure. They seem to be mostly on the floating type plants. I used a few drops of dish detergent in a spray bottle of water. Worked for a few days but now they are back. What would you use on your pond plants? Insecticidal soap? thanks for any help judi |
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On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:00:32 -0500, "Judi" wrote:
All of a sudden I have tiny black bugs on some of my plants. I was thinking spider mites but I'm just not sure. They seem to be mostly on the floating type plants. I used a few drops of dish detergent in a spray bottle of water. Worked for a few days but now they are back. What would you use on your pond plants? Insecticidal soap? thanks for any help judi Aphids are often black on water plants. If it was lilies I'd say squish them, otherwise keep using the detergent & water if it works (though using detergent around fish isn't recommended) you'll have to do this every 3 days at least 3 times to get all the bugs and the hatching eggs. ~ jan ~Power to the Porg, Flow On!~ |
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![]() All of a sudden I have tiny black bugs on some of my plants. I was thinking spider mites but I'm just not sure. They seem to be mostly on the floating type plants. I used a few drops of dish detergent in a spray bottle of water. Worked for a few days but now they are back. What would you use on your pond plants? Insecticidal soap? thanks for any help judi "~ jan JJsPond.us" wrote in message Aphids are often black on water plants. If it was lilies I'd say squish them, otherwise keep using the detergent & water if it works (though using detergent around fish isn't recommended) you'll have to do this every 3 days at least 3 times to get all the bugs and the hatching eggs. ~ jan Thanks I got in the pond today and on closer inspection I do believe they are aphids. My pond is around 1000 gals, lots of healthy plants and around 30 happy goldfish and shubunkins. Started with only 6 fish last year. My water is crystal clear with minimal algae, mostly in the stream. So everything is doing great but these bugs are scaring me. I think with the size of the pond the fish should be okay using the super diluted detergent. If your method doesn't work after a few tries I'm going to go ahead and pull out the primrose creeper and water poppies. Would really hate for them to infest my other plants. BTW, this was my first post but have been following this ng off and on since we started building our pond a year ago last spring. Can I just ask...what the ? has happened to this group? You sure have to sift through a lot of crap to find pond related stuff. Hope all you good ponders hang in there... judi |
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On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:36:36 -0500, "Judi" wrote:
I got in the pond today and on closer inspection I do believe they are aphids. My pond is around 1000 gals, lots of healthy plants and around 30 happy goldfish and shubunkins. Started with only 6 fish last year. My water is crystal clear with minimal algae, mostly in the stream. So everything is doing great but these bugs are scaring me. I think with the size of the pond the fish should be okay using the super diluted detergent. If your method doesn't work after a few tries I'm going to go ahead and pull out the primrose creeper and water poppies. Would really hate for them to infest my other plants. the primrose creeper's green/black dots around the buds? Aren't necessarily aphids, they could be a part of the plant. I keep trying to remove those too. You might want to look at an end stem piece under a magnifying glass to be sure. BTW, this was my first post but have been following this ng off and on since we started building our pond a year ago last spring. Can I just ask...what the ? has happened to this group? You sure have to sift through a lot of crap to find pond related stuff. Hope all you good ponders hang in there... judi It's a long story. Basically 2 people have a grudge against each other, and one of those people happens to be a ponder. So to cause harm to that one, the other is filling this newsgroup with trolls and stealing nyms, basically a newsgroup terrorist, imo, inflicting harm to many to harm the one. Plus anything this person posts in any other group, they cross post to this newsgroup. Those of us still hanging in there have our kill filters on Max, so it looks pretty normal in here, very little "crap". ~ jan ~Power to the Porg, Flow On!~ |
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