are these aphids?

[chickenwhisperer]

I only have found them on my pumpkin blossoms, and usually only the young green ones at that...
They dont move much, even when touched.
Do I need to go buy some ladybugs?

 

[digitS']

Those are them . . . aphids. You can probably blast them away with the hose, CW. Just try not to damage your plants.

That's quite a photograph!! The white things are probably aphid skin casts from a few days earlier. One way to detect aphids on a plant is seeing the little specks of white from their shed skins.

Notice that the aphid nearest the camera has a Rolex wrist watch. Makes you wonder, don't it?!

Steve

 

[catjac1975]

Oh, yea! A water spray will get rid of a lot. Garlic in a blender with water, a bit of dish soap and sprayed on the plant will get rid of the stubborn ones.

 

[chickenwhisperer]

I sprayed them with water and dishsoap, but they havent budged.
Tho I only see them on this one pumpkin plant, I have alot of other valuable plants that I do not want them on.
Itsa nice day, the weather is not too hot, so Im jumpin on the beach cruiser and riding 0.9 miles to my nursery and hopefully they still got some ladybugs left...

Oh, and that photo was from my cellphone and then cropped and enlarged, I wish i coulda made it a bit sharper/clearer, but hey....
thanks

 

[catjac1975]

Add garlic-

I sprayed them with water and dishsoap, but they havent budged.
Tho I only see them on this one pumpkin plant, I have alot of other valuable plants that I do not want them on.
Itsa nice day, the weather is not too hot, so Im jumpin on the beach cruiser and riding 0.9 miles to my nursery and hopefully they still got some ladybugs left...

Oh, and that photo was from my cellphone and then cropped and enlarged, I wish i coulda made it a bit sharper/clearer, but hey....
thanks

 

[chickenwhisperer]

So I did not end up buying the ladybugs...
Yesterday I sprayed again with the dishsoap(I dont have plain garlic right now, so I didnt add any) and water, and also cut off the most heavily infested blossoms.

Today I see very few aphids.
Ill keep up the spraying until I see none.

 

[catjac1975]

Try red pepper instead-or together.