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not greenfly but lilac fly???
sanjy67
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anyone know what these are, i found them on my flat leaf parsley when it had gone all floppy, ive washed them off and replaced the top layer of compost after i had rinsed them off plant 
there were millions of them
on a cuter note i saw this little chap on the bird feeder then he sat on top here just watching me
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ooh are they, i'll google to compare, i was expecting woolly aphids to look ...well woolly lol
mmm i'm not convinced they are the woolly variety as mine weren't white and woolly as google is showing. I tried typing in purple(they are actually lilac in colour but thought that would confuse google with the tree lilac) aphids but not a lot comes up for uk
I think (going by the host plant) that they're likely to be Carrot Aphid - squirt a jet of water from the hozepipe at them! Colour seems to be an imprecise diagnostic tool!
http://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/insect-survey-resources/aphid-species
Monty Don sets us a bit of a challenge here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/gardening/article-1186297/Plagued-aphids-Why-learn-love-little-pests-says-Monty-Don.html
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
edd & dove probably the cabbage aphid then comparing the two types. i hosed them off dove.
interesting articles dove and i don't mind a few aphids but these had caused the plant to completely flop with the amount sucking on it, it perked back up as soon as they were gone.