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Lupin aphids

BrexiteerBrexiteer Posts: 955
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Silly question but do Lupin aphids only attack lupins. Whilst helping a mate out her lupins where white with aphids and terribly sticky

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  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    Horrible things. I've never seen them on anything else.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I just run my hands up the flower spikes and brush them off ... only had to do it twice and now I’ve got beautiful flowering spikes 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • NanniemoNanniemo Posts: 226
    My lupins were smothered with these for the first time this year. Never had them before. I just aimed the hosepipe at them and they haven’t appeared since but my flowers seem to be dying off earlier than usual ☹️
  • Janie BJanie B Posts: 963
    Yes, I had them for the first time this year, too. I have knocked them off with fingers and hosepipe a couple of times. They seem to be getting fewer. Flowers look a bit feeble, though...
    Lincolnshire
  • Mary370Mary370 Posts: 2,003
    3 of my Lupin plants were decimated by them this year......happy to see ladybirds on the remaining plants.  First time I've had to try to deal with them.....horrid things
  • BrexiteerBrexiteer Posts: 955
    They seem massive compared to the normal aphids 
  • BluebaronBluebaron Posts: 226
    I get them every year and sadly have resorted now to spraying. I do it early before flowers and it works. 

    I tired just hosing them off but within days they are all back. 
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