This post needs to go. I guess I am the only one with these pests, and they have been pests to me. They are still flying around, and we have millions of lady beetles and their larva hunting them.

The fallen leaves are nasty and almost black on the underside. I can hardly wait to rake them up - especially since some large very large black ants have joined the crowd.

The rest of you are fortunate, but probably you have your own dilemas.

Sammy

Sammy,

I guess they haven't made it down here to southcentral Oklahoma yet.

I was wondering if you'd have enough lady bugs to take care of them all, and it sounds like you do.

If this was your first year with them, I wonder if every year will be as bad, or if they will go through up cycles and down cycles like grasshoppers do.

I know the wooly hackberry aphids have been a problem in the southern states for years, and slowly advancing our way. I think your case of them is the first I've heard of in Oklahoma. I guess it would be fun to be "first" with some new things, but not this one!

Dawn