The poppies in my garden are so stunted this year, due to lck of rain I suppose. This little one is putting on a valient effort to make seeds and a new flower. The aphids are having fun, as are the ladybird nymphs!
You might have to spray for aphids - the ladybirds can't keep up! This bud looks ok - going to spread its petals beautifully! The rain drops will disappear!
They often get blamed for "flower murder", but as they at worse extract minute amounts of stuff and don't really do much. They can't really destroy a flower, unless the plant was already weak and sick and not going to make one in the first place, so it's pointless killing them (the flowers here are always "swarming" in them and other things but produce piles of flowers)! :D
I tend to blast them off with a hose where they are covering my leaves on my tree! It doesn't kill them, it just moves them elsewhere. My son thought this was a picture of a parrot as he walked across the kitchen and glanced over.......
@merrelyn perhaps he got lost? @casablanca a parrot!! He's right it does! @miseria I think of them as food for other bugs! I prefer not to spray (unless I@m watering!) @joysabin I thought it was quite well disguised @maggiemae It was a blooming poppy this morning, and now all petals fallen off! @ludwigsdiana My plants have two chances, and I do little to help them with thier choice! @mittens many thanks
June 28th, 2018
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They often get blamed for "flower murder", but as they at worse extract minute amounts of stuff and don't really do much. They can't really destroy a flower, unless the plant was already weak and sick and not going to make one in the first place, so it's pointless killing them (the flowers here are always "swarming" in them and other things but produce piles of flowers)! :D
@casablanca a parrot!! He's right it does!
@miseria I think of them as food for other bugs! I prefer not to spray (unless I@m watering!)
@joysabin I thought it was quite well disguised
@maggiemae It was a blooming poppy this morning, and now all petals fallen off!
@ludwigsdiana My plants have two chances, and I do little to help them with thier choice!
@mittens many thanks