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Old 16-04-2019, 06:53 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Greenfly on mint
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What is the best remedy?

I think my previous reply failed to send. If so; two non-chemical
suggestions I've founbd to work:

Blast them off with the hose pipe, repeat a few days later to repel
survivors.

Hang some peanut feeders nearby to draw the attention of tits to the
free feast of insects. When feeding nestlings tits prefer live insects
to nuts.

For the sake of insectivores' newly hatched nestlings, now is a
really bad time of year to spray deadly insecticide.

Janet.
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