Plant Lice-Aphids
Identify : Aphids,also called plant lice,are about the size of a pinhead.They are easy to spot with the naked eys,but use a 10X magnifying glass of positive indentification.Aphids are found in all climates.Normally grayish to black,aphids can be green to pink-in any color,aphids attack plants.Most aphids have no wings,but those that do have wings about four times the size of their bodies.Aphids give birth to maily live female larvae without mating and can pump out three to 100 hungry larvae everyday.Each female reproduces between 40 and 100 offspring that start reproducing soon after birth hydroponic channel .Aphids are most common indoors when they are plentiful outdoors.Install yellow sticky traps near base of several plants and near the tops other plants to monitor invasions of winged aphids,often the first to enter the garden.As they feed,aphids exude sticky honeydew that attracts ants that feed on it.Ants like honeydew so much that they take the aphids hostage and make them produc
