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I visited a customer today, old lady who has hundreds and hundreds of wasps around her small willow tree. On close examination I found it was infested with huge dark coloured aphids so I'm thinking the wasps are eating the sap (honeydew). They are in the tree and all over the ground under it.

 

She has a bad reaction to wasps so is pretty distraught, and can't sit in the garden.

 

Now, she wants me to get rid of the tree to get rid of the wasps and get her garden back. It's not a big willow, maybe 10 feet tall and so nobody is really going to miss it, but my question is there another way to get rid of the wasps and/or aphids?

 

Otherwise it's chipper at dawn before the wasps get warmed up....

 

 

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On 30/08/2022 at 22:55, Peasgood said:

Spraying the tree with an insecticide is an option but I would chop it down.

Thanks, didn't want to get in to insecticide so have taken it down, customer happy to see it gone.

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