Sentences with phrase «aphids off»

You can use this accessory to blast aphids off roses and skip the chemicals.

Fight these little pests with fire by knocking the aphids off the seedlings with a spray mixture of soapy water and chile powder.

A non-toxic method is to wash the aphids off the seedlings every day with a stream of water.

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The aphids love my garden kale so I started snapping off leaves for the compost bin, then sick of losing good food, I put some of less infested leaves into a plastic dish pan of warm soapy water.

The milkweed gives off a sap that the aphids eat; then they secrete honeydew, a delicious snack for the ants.

One such insect, the sap - sucking aphid (a common pest in gardens), has an effective escape plan, though: the bugs detect an approaching herbivore's breath and simply drop off the plant before it's eaten.Researchers at the University of Haifa at Oranim, Israel first noticed this phenomenon when they allowed a goat to feed on aphid - infested alfalfa plants — 65 percent of the plant pests simultaneously dropped to the ground just before the vegetation was devoured.The team suspected that several cues might have motivated the mass dropping, including the sudden shadow cast by the goat, plant - shaking triggered by the munching marauder and / or the herbivore's exhalations.

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