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How to Control Aphids on Roses
12.06.2023 - 01:13 / gardenerspath.com / Laura Ojeda Melchor
How to Control Aphids on RosesYou’re walking alongside your sweet-scented rose bushes when you stop short. Something’s not quite right with your lovely blooms.
You lean in closer, and see that some of the flower stems and buds are covered in small, pear-shaped insects, typically green or pink but they may appear in other colors as well.
What are they? Aphids. The pesky creatures are feasting on your dazzling plants and you must get them off – but how exactly do you control aphids on roses?
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In this article, we’ll discuss the best ways to control an aphid infestation on your precious plants. Even better, we’ll help you learn how to prevent large-scale attacks before they happen.
Here’s what we’ll dig into:
Meet the AphidAphids will infest nearly every living plant they can get their tiny, threadlike legs on.
These soft-bodied true bugs are members of the superfamily Aphidoidea and can be found all over the world, although they are most common in temperate climate zones.
These tiny pear-shaped insects are usually between two and four millimeters long and come in many colors: black, white, green, pink, and orange, to name a few.
Of the 4,000 aphid species that have been identified, about 250 are considered crop and ornamental plant pests.
The green or pink three-millimeter-long Macrosiphum rosae is the rose’s main attacker, although other species can feast on your roses, too.
They can’t move far on those tiny legs, which is why you’ll often see them clustered up on a stem, sometimes in multiple stacked layers of tiny bodies.
Possibly the
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