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  • detsnpowderdetsnpowder Posts: 28
    Are these Greenfly and can I just spray soapy water on them ? Any answers please
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 10,261
    It's hard to tell without a closeup pic.
    They may be scale insects, can you  lift one off a leaf and have a look?
    If there's stuff that looks like cotton wool underneath, then it's scale insects (they're bit like tiny limpets).
    If it has legs, it's not :)
    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • B3B3 Posts: 25,188
    edited May 2022
    I have those on the underside of convovulus leaves. I gave up on Google. Couldn't Identify them. Little hard gold things. You end up with pictures of jewellery..
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 83,796
    What are they doing to the plant?

    Are they clustering on tender young shoots, or are they on more mature leaves all over the plant or just on a few leaves?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 25,188
    I squished a couple of mine. They're blackish inside.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 21,881
    They’ve got long legs.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    They look like aphids to me.
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 10,261
    me too - you could try using the hose on them to shift them
    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • detsnpowderdetsnpowder Posts: 28
    Thanks , I've been away for a week but before I went scraped most of them off and I sprayed soapy water on the leaves . Just checked they're gone completely. Thanks again
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