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    • January 8, 2015 at 4:51 AM #34152
      Fey

        I found these little beasties today on my Pleurisy Root plant (Asclepias tuberosa). They’re often called the oleander aphid. I put a tsp of cooking oil, a tsp of liquid soap into about 600mls (a pint?) of water and sluiced them with that. A cotton wool bud dipped in alcohol and dabbed on them will work too.

        Watch for Monarch butterfly eggs though because both of these remedies will kill them too.

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      • January 9, 2015 at 1:07 AM #34154
        IdahoHerbalist

          I have never seen yellow aphids before.

        • January 9, 2015 at 1:53 AM #34156
          Fey

            I’d never seen them either until I moved out here. They thrive on the Narrow leaf cotton bush, Gomphocarpus fruticosus, a declared weed in Australia. It’s everywhere on the farms around here and sometimes you see entire plants covered in them.

            Unfortunately, they also like Pleurisy root.

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