Rain falls gently onto the buds and blooms, flowing gently as it nourishes.

By contrast, A BLAST of water is needed to knock aphids from rose buds.
OR you can just wipe 'em off with your fingers.

Jeri

Thanks Jeri. As usual you are always around to help. You helped me a lot last summer also. Are the fly things some kind of aphids also?
Again, thanks. Donna

donnann, if you can post a clear, close-up (more or less) picture of the "fly things" I might be able to give you an idea of what they are. FWIW, I identify insects for a living.

Aphids frequently attract predatory insects of various sorts. This wouldn't be the only explanation of what you're seeing (hardly!), but it may well be that you are seeing something predatory that's eating the aphids.

Also, aphids require soft, succulent stem tissue for successful feeding. Their mouths are essentially needles through which they suck out the sap of the plant from which they're feeding. You're seeing them now because now is when your roses have put out the most amount of succulent growth they will have this year. Once the flush of bloom is finished and we move into July your roses' stems will begin hardening up. Then the aphids won't find it so easy to feed upon the roses (their mouths won't be able to pierce the stems), and so then they'll pretty much leave them alone and go looking for some other plant to feed from.

Thank you, I look forward to their exit. I wish I could get a pic but their too tiny. I'm surprised I can see them. I keep wiping them off along with the aphids. Last yr. It was the pinchers. This yr. I bought escargo plus. What a difference!! That product really works. Thank you, Donna

Some aphids have wings, you know. They will be scattered among the wingless ones.