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aphids
annmarie 2
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in Fruit & veg
cherry tree keeps getting aphids on it every year tried every thing but nothing works I even take infected leaves off and bin them ... I also get a lot of wasps and bee,s swarming around it. any advice I would be grateful and why do the insects insist on swarming around it the fruit not even ripe stil green rock hard ,every year I loose the fruit
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while the aphids are munching their way through your cherry tree they produce excrement, delightfully known as honey dew (I call mine the same:). It's only the sap of your tree that has passed through them, so it's not really yuck! but it is sweet, and bees and wasps love sweet things, so it's the honey dew they're after. On the plus side, wasps eat aphids too
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