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May 22, 2021 2:25 PM CST
Name: Chip
Medicine Bow Range, Wyoming (Zone 3a)
Hard to tell from the photos. For aphids, I start by brushing them off with a paintbrush. Second tactic is Safer Soap insecticide (some kinds have pyrethrins and/or neem oil). I give them a dousing with Safer's, then the next day set them outside the greenhouse and spray them with a fine nozzle to wash the wee buggers off.

In a greenhouse ladybugs can be good, especially the second generation, little stripy monsters known as aphid lions.

Had whiteflies a couple years ago: worst ever plague. I had to clean out the greenhouse, burn the dead stuff, and let it freeze up for a month to get rid of them.

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