How To Control & Treat Aphids On Plants? (STEP BY STEP)

Aphids Are One Of The Most Common & Dangerous Pests, They Attack Mostly In a Cool Season, & Getting Control Over Them Can Be Really Hard If You Don’t Treat Them Timely. So In This post, We Will Talk All About Aphids, How They Attack & When, How To Prevent Them, & What Are Some Steps To Treat Aphids. So lets Begin.

What Are Aphids & How They Attack?

Aphids Are The Soft Body tiny Insects, That Suck The Sap From a Plant, They Mostly Feed On The New Growth, They have an Oval Shaped Body, The Color Of Aphids varies, Some Have Grey, While Some Have Orange Color & Even Green.

They Attack In Groups, & Starts Reproducing On The Plant. Their Effect On The Plant health is Severe, They Suck The Sap Liquid From The Stem, Sap is The Liquid Full of Nutrients For The Plant, Using These Nutrients, Plant Keeps It Growth Continue.

But When Aphids Suck It Out, The Plant Faces a shortage of Nutrients, This Thing Effects The Plant In Several Ways, Like yellow leaves, Curling leaves, Buds & Flowers Drop, Stunted Growth, Patchy Leaves etc.

Ideal Time For Aphids Attack & Plants?

The Ideal Season For Aphids Attack Varies, They Basically Likes a Warm Temperature, & Some Humdity. In My Experience, They Appear In Ending of Winters & Starting Springs, At This Time Winter Season Plants Have Matured & Ready To Bloom Or Fruit.

The High Humidity Helps Them Move Well, While Warm temperature Is Ideal For Their Reproduction. Plants Placed In Density can Raise The Chances Of Aphids Attack, Some Of The Most Common Plants They Attack Are Roses, Cauliflowers, Tomtaoes, Ornamantal Plants, Cabbages Etc.

One Key Thing You Should Know About Aphids is That They also Carries Viruses, When They Attack On an Infected Plant, They Suck The Virus Of The Plant Inside of Them, This Virus Wont Harm The Aphids, But When They Go To a Different Healthy Plant, They Will Transfer This Virus Inside Of it.

A Viral Attack Is Very Fatal, Because There is no Cure For Virus. You Must have Seen The Effect of This Virus On Tomatoes & peppers, In The Form of Severe Curling of Leaves.

How Aphids Reproduce?

Aphids also Reproduce Very Fast, & Within some Days They can Be Over Your Whole Space, The Only Way To Solve This Is A Timely Diagnosis & Treatment.

Aphids Reproduce Very Fast, The Female Aphid Give Birth To Young Aphids Without Any Mating. Only Ideal Conditions Are Required. This Way Aphids Can be Over Your Whole Space & Destroy All Plants.

Aphids Preventive Measures!

To Prevent Aphids In The First Place, You can Follow a Few Things. First of all Choose Only Healthy Seedlings To Plant, They Are Resistant, While Weaker plants Get Frequent Attacks. Place The Plants In a Open & Airy Space, To Reduce The Humdity. Keeps Monitoring Your Plants To Identify The Aphids As Soon As Possible.

& Best of all, Use Neem Oil Spray Once a Week, No matter Pests Attack Or Not. This Will Make a Shield Around Your Plants Which Will Prevent The Pests From attacking. Detailed Guide On Making & using Neem Oil Spray For Plants Is Linked Here.

Steps To Treat Aphids:

Now lets know What Are Some Steps You Can Follow To Get Rid Of Aphids From Your Plants.

& By Mixing These Steps The Aphids Attack Will Be Over Soon. Within a Week, You will See The Reduction of Aphids On Your Plant. Simply Keep Using The Neem Oil Spray twice a Week.

• The First & The Simplest Step is To Move Your Aphids Infected Plants In an Open & Airy Space, This Thing Will Imrpove The Air Circulation Around Plants, which Will Reduce The Humdity Levels. & Hence The Aphids Reproduction Will Reduce. So Simply Put Your Plants In an Open Area.
• Now The Next Step is To Manually Remove The Most Infected Branches of Aphids. They Attack In The Form of Clusters, So You will find Them locating At One Spot, Simply Remove The Parts of The Plant Where They Are Most in Density. The Removed Branches Should be Disposed Properly, You can Pack Them In an Air Tight bag, This Way They Will Die Inside & Wont Go To Other of Your Plants.

• The Next Step is To use a Soapy Neem Oil Spray. Neem Oil Is a Thing That Pests Hate The Most. Its Taste & Smell Is Unliked By The Pests & That’s Why They Run away From it. The Soapy Texture of The Spray Will Make a Layer Around The Aphids Which Will Suffocate Them.
• So By The A Through Use of Neem Oil Spray, Most of Aphids Will Go Away or Die. & In This Time, Plant Will Fight Too. For Making Neem Oil Spray, Follow This Guide. Or You Can Also Buy a Ready To Use Neem Oil Spray From Here.

& By Mixing These Steps The Aphids Attack Will Be Over Soon. Within a Week, You will See The Reduction of Aphids On Your Plant. Simply Keep Using The Neem Oil Spray twice a Week.

Once You See Your Plant Growing Again, You Should Fertilize It. aphids Sucked Most of The Plant Nutrients, Now It Need More Nutrition To Continue It Growth. You Can use Any Good Fertilizer, I am Using The Heavy feeders Homemade Organic fertilizer, It Works Best To Provide a variety of Nutrients To A Plant. The Guide On It is Linked here.

So Its all About Aphids & Their Organic Treatment, Here is a detailed guide On Leaf Miners Treatment. & Here is a List on Other kind of Pests. Feel Free To Follow.