Cry havoc and let slip the ladybugs of war

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From the Pesco post thread about aphids born pregnant…

Meet the aphids that are born pregnant and eager to destroy your garden

I uses a similar concoction: [savonnoir] Though TBH diluted dish soap also works. This stuff seems to be good too, but I only started trying it at the end of last season when my brussels had the usual infestation of the mealy cabbage aphid It certainly helped with that. The trouble with ladybirds is that even when there are lots of them (and there were, here, last year) they simply cannot control an outbreak of the mealy cabbage aphid. Ok this is partly because they are under netting to ke…