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  • cootambear
    cootambear Posts: 1,474 Forumite
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    brogusblue wrote: »
    I am suffering too with my roses .. They are everywhere .. Tonight when cooler i will water with a little bit of washing up liquid to remove them..

    make sure its rose scented ;)
    Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4 (George Orwell, 1984).

    (I desire) ‘a great production that will supply all, and more than all the people can consume’,

    (Sylvia Pankhurst).
  • misskool
    misskool Posts: 12,832 Forumite
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    lots of greenfly here too :( ugh
  • Farway
    Farway Posts: 15,211 Forumite
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    None here as yet, Just lily beetles, South Hants
    When an eel bites your bum, that's a Moray
  • RuthnJasper
    RuthnJasper Posts: 4,033 Forumite
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    brogusblue wrote: »
    I am suffering too with my roses .. They are everywhere .. Tonight when cooler i will water with a little bit of washing up liquid to remove them..


    Does that actually work? I mean, I know washing-up liquid is still a chemical, but probably less-caustic than Roseclear.... Any advice much appreciated. Managed to get rid of Blackspot last year without resorting to chemicals, so slightly ashamed of myself for reaching for the Roseclear this time 'round... :o
  • OneYorkshireLass
    OneYorkshireLass Posts: 3,166 Forumite
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    I've got swarms in my garden too - but they're not landing on anything (except me!) it's as if they've just hatched and are a bit confused ...
  • dan.tee
    dan.tee Posts: 1 Newbie
    There's thousands of 'em up here in Liverpool - it's like dandelion fluff drifting by. I went out cycling today and came back covered in the blighters. Gross.
  • janie-h
    janie-h Posts: 78 Forumite
    My patio rose COVERED in the little green blighters! Will get my soapy water out tomorrow and drown the little !!!!!!s
  • rabidbun
    rabidbun Posts: 321 Forumite
    Had swarms of these two years ago, last year it was flying ants. Waiting for either ladybirds or locusts this year... ;)

    Am ready with some nice horticultural soap though this time (washing up liquid let some escape last time - I probably mixed it wrong) which has already nicely seen off the early sawfly type on most of my fruit thank goodness! :)
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