aphids

Is this stuff safe to use on sundews, if I find it impractical to drown them in water to kill aphids?

...is to distribute your plants to other growers. You guys are great! After my mini-disaster with aphids and over-drowning plants, and losses of a few of my Utrics and sundews, many of you responded with offers to replace my plants freely. Thanks, everybody!

My was wonder if anyone can help me out. I gathered my collection last spring... so this is my first complete growing season. Most of my sars are starting to get burned. All made it through dormancy and I repotted them in the 2 set ups that I have in the photos. All sprung to life and have been...

I drowned a number of my Utrics and sundews to treat for aphids as recommended. I left them submerged for 7 days. A few of them did not survive the treatment. The incomplete list of casualties includes: D. binata (dichotoma small red) D. binata (T-form, small) D. filiformis 'California Sunset'...

i'm growing some nasturtiums in containers on the porch, which have been doing great until tonight, when my mom noticed large clusters of what i thought were black aphids on the tops of the stems. whatever they were they covered the tops of several stems, and had infested the geraniums in the...

So I've been battling aphids since mid-winter and I finally exhausted my big bottle of pyrethrum. I thought they were finally gone for good, after five weeks with no sightings, but today I found one on the flower stalk of my D. spathulata. I've gotten most of them, but they persist among my...

I got this D. capensis a few days ago from petflytrap.com, and it's not looking too well. I'm thinking that it could be shock? I put it in a 10-gallon to keep humidity up, and water with distilled via the tray method. After being in the terrarium all night, it has sticky dew on it's leaves, but...

Partially due to my respect for Tamlin's advice and the actual successful experience of following it, I have taken badly mistreated / ignored plants from the local nurseries and have brought most of them back to health. I have doen it by making sure the media is moist and the pot is covered...

can anyone tell me a good way to get rid of aphids. I use water with a little dish soap in it on my other indoor plants but not sure if it will be ok on cps

On Thursday I noticed that my D. callistos flower stalks had aphids. I snipped and flushed them. Now I have had success in ridding my D. capensis, D. adela,and D. spatulata of aphids by drowning, but now I am not sure if they are just migrating to different plants in the collection. People have...

Ok I've been seeing lots of springtails in my VFT pot(pure peat). I'm thinking it may be beccause I'm using pure peat. Would it be better to mix in some sand into the peat? Also, how does one prevent mites? Since summer is coming I have a feeling if I keep the plants outside they will attack...

Updated: 8 March 2006 <ul> Cephalotus <ul>C. follicularis[/list] Darlingtonia <ul>D. californica[/list] Dionaea <ul>D. muscipula (various forms) D. muscipula 'Akai Ryu'[/list] Drosera <ul>D. adelae D. aliciae D. ascendens (deceased, shipping shock) D. binata (dichotoma small red) D. binata...

Well to my dismay I have noticed that my D. scorpioides plants all have aphids. I was wondering if anyone has had success with submerging the plants like with other species like D. capensis or D. adelae? Thanks Steve

Okay, people have tried innovative ways of germinating seeds and propogating leaf cuttings. I have been using plastic pipette containers, with hinged covers, as "grow chambers". I have had good success with it. Others do essentially the same thing by placing media in a baggie and sprinkling...

Hey all, so it seems I have aphids as well as spider mites and algae. Life is peachy. I've been looking up the insecticides mentioned in the Savage Garden but they all seem to be fairly toxic and for outdoor use. I have birds, fish and small mammals in the apartment so I'm very nervous about...

Hm, of the questions that I've seen asked lately, these haven't come up -to my knowledge-.  They are tiny black specks running around on my VFTs.  As they've just started to pick up again -that's California for ya- and I don't wanna loose these.  I dunno, are they aphids or something??  They...

I read in Savage Garden, I think it was about aphids, and D'Amato said the female were born pregnant and that's why they multiply so fast. Now that's nice and dandy (or not...), but what are the males used for then?!?  Just taking up space?

I know that most cps die from fungus, gnats, or aphids and I know that ladybugs and ladybug larvae eat aphids. So is it recommend to use ladybugs to eat the aphids or just use pesticide. I don't have any aphids but I would like to know, cause there's a field near my house that has a plant that...

im really begining to wonder if a pest/illness forum wouldnt be a good idea. anyways on to my problem. ive got bugs eating my plants, well sucking my plants. ive delt with aphids and mealy bugs and well i figured i was fairly familiar with most plant pests but these have me stumped. i would take...

The Peruvian Andes gave the world the potato, which is one of the largest crops in the world today. The problem is, the modern potato is plagued by potato beetles and aphids, which also carry some viral diseases to the plant. Now a wild potato found in the Bolivian Andes is being studied because...