Pleurisy Root aphids

[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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[IdahoHerbalist]

I have never seen yellow aphids before.

[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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