Posts Tagged as ‘aphids’

August 11, 2008

where were we? ah, yes…the et al

whiteflies! scale! spidermites! mosquitoes! slugs revisited!
whiteflies are tiny, tiny flies that lay their eggs on the undersides of leaves. you can identify the pests as whiteflies (as opposed to scale, a relative) by yellow, stunted plant growth (similar to the damage caused by aphids, another relative) and by the flurry of activity like that of [...]

July 30, 2008

aphids!

red, black, green, white, pink, brown…yup, those are aphids. though they look like tiny grasshoppers, aphids mass together in numbers to enjoy a life of sucking the life out of garden plants and making baby aphids as fast as they can. they cannot fly, but can be carried on the wind for great distances. some [...]

July 28, 2008

IPM

just for the record, i am stating here that i love acronyms. case & point: i graduated from TESC (the evergreen state college,) currently own & manage P&B CGS (pot & box container gardening service,) and love my black dog TKM (the ko man.)
but, this time of year, the name of the game is IPM. [...]