Whats this on this apple?

[RobArb]

lots of silky ball type thingyoes... any ideas?

[Andy Collins]

Wooly aphid

[slack ma girdle]

Wooly aphid

 

Yer beat me too it.

[Andy Collins]

Yer too slow

[Gollum]

Woolly aphid.

If you squash it between your fingers it will go like a brick red gunge

[RobArb]

nice, i'll remember that when i see it again:lol:

[agg221]

Whilst you're no longer allowed to use soft soap as an insecticide, if the owner felt inclined to give his tree a good cleaning and chose soft soap and warm water he might find the aphid problem didn't come back too quickly.....

 

Alec

[Mark James]

Whilst you're no longer allowed to use soft soap as an insecticide, if the owner felt inclined to give his tree a good cleaning and chose soft soap and warm water he might find the aphid problem didn't come back too quickly.....

 

Alec

 

Also handy for greenfly on apple and plum trees. Best insecticide or well maybe the cheapest about I would say.

 

 

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[Old Mill Tree Care]

agg221, when you say 'soft soap', what exactly is that?

[agg221]

agg221, when you say 'soft soap', what exactly is that?

 

It's a specific type of soap, rather like swarfega in consistency. It's probably the base for the hand-pump type soaps, but without the perfume added and at a rather more realistic price. It dissolves up easily in water and wets out over the wax on the aphids, effectively drowning them (coincidentally in the course of washing your trees of course).

 

I think the most likely supplier would be a proper old fashioned ironmongers or a horse type place as I think it's still preferred for cleaning leather.

 

Alec