Aphids Are Winning Help!!
Aphids Are Winning Help!!
Picture this for a minute, close your eye and imagine its spring time and you're out planting your garden. You have started all your plants indoors and they are very healthy and lush. You have taken extra special care of them and you're excited to have a good crop this year.
The next morning you head outside to tend to your veggies and you notice that there is a small green bug on one of your plants. Yes it's an Aphid. You think nothing of it, what can on little bug do to my garden?
The next day you notice there are more of them. You start to worry now because over night they have multiplied and within a few days there will be thousands of them destroying your garden that you worked so hard to grow.
Now you are really freaking out. You keep mumbling to yourself "Aphids Are Winning Help, Aphids Are Winning Help, Aphids Are Winning Help" Are you experiencing these over whelming feelings of panic?
Now for the good news, there is a little known secret to getting rid of those pesky little bugs that is 100% organic and you probably have all the ingredients in your kitchen to make this killer bug spray.
The unusual lifecycle of Aphids might scare you but don't worry there are things you can do to minimize their damage. It all starts in the fall when the males fertilize the female's eggs.
The eggs hibernate for the winter tucked away in the dirt, bark and bud scales. Spring time rolls around and the eggs hatch into females which give birth to 10 or more live female young per day.
Wow, now you can picture just how fast this infestation could spin out of control!! Let's do some math just for fun.
First day 10 eggs hatch.
Second day 10 females * 10 baby's each 100 new females.
Third day 100 females * 10 baby's each 1000 new females.
Fourth day 1000 females * 10 baby's each 10,000 new females.
Now you are thinking "Aphids Are Winning Help"
If the climate for the aphids becomes unfavorable or the colony gets over crowded winged adults are produced so the colony can migrate.
Picture this for a minute, close your eye and imagine its spring time and you're out planting your garden. You have started all your plants indoors and they are very healthy and lush. You have taken extra special care of them and you're excited to have a good crop this year.
The next morning you head outside to tend to your veggies and you notice that there is a small green bug on one of your plants. Yes it's an Aphid. You think nothing of it, what can on little bug do to my garden?
The next day you notice there are more of them. You start to worry now because over night they have multiplied and within a few days there will be thousands of them destroying your garden that you worked so hard to grow.
Now you are really freaking out. You keep mumbling to yourself "Aphids Are Winning Help, Aphids Are Winning Help, Aphids Are Winning Help" Are you experiencing these over whelming feelings of panic?
Now for the good news, there is a little known secret to getting rid of those pesky little bugs that is 100% organic and you probably have all the ingredients in your kitchen to make this killer bug spray.
The unusual lifecycle of Aphids might scare you but don't worry there are things you can do to minimize their damage. It all starts in the fall when the males fertilize the female's eggs.
The eggs hibernate for the winter tucked away in the dirt, bark and bud scales. Spring time rolls around and the eggs hatch into females which give birth to 10 or more live female young per day.
Wow, now you can picture just how fast this infestation could spin out of control!! Let's do some math just for fun.
First day 10 eggs hatch.
Second day 10 females * 10 baby's each 100 new females.
Third day 100 females * 10 baby's each 1000 new females.
Fourth day 1000 females * 10 baby's each 10,000 new females.
Now you are thinking "Aphids Are Winning Help"
If the climate for the aphids becomes unfavorable or the colony gets over crowded winged adults are produced so the colony can migrate.
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