Botanic Garden >> Gardening > >> Question and Answer >> Plant Species >> Carnivorous Plants

Aphids on Drosera Flower Stalks: Common Spring Pest

Grower (Utah) has D. capensis and unknown drosera. Healthy, high humidity, SE sun. Dew and flower stalks abundant. Tiny yellowish clear wingless insects on flower stalks (both plants). Treat or ignore?

Aphids—Spray Now

Common spring pest, love sundews. Attack flower stalks and new growth before dew forms. Spray insecticide. Most safe, but watch video for safe products and technique.

Good growing!
Jacob Farin

Carnivorous Plants: Aphids on Evergreens: Garlic, Soap, and Lady Beetle Allies; Weed-Free Flower Seed Beds: Mulch, Not Herbicide; Phalaenopsis Keiki on Spike: Separation Timing and Repotting Priority; When to Cut Drosera capensis Flower Stalks for Seed Harvest; Vegetative Apomixis on Drosera spatulata Flower Stalks; Caring for Newly Acquired Pinguicula Hybrids and Drosera Burmannii; Drosera spatulata Flowering: To Cut or Not, and How to Harvest Seeds; Drosera capensis Flowering from the Top Down: Normal or Problem?; Drosera spatulata Flower Stalks: Sticky but Not Carnivorous; Reviving Leggy Drosera scorpioides and Managing Sarracenia purpurea Pitcher Deformities

Garden Articles

Nepenthes Scale and Sooty Mold: Insecticidal Soap for Scale, Ignore Mold

Fertilizing Carnivorous Plants: Miracle-Gro Orchid Food Guidelines

Drosera capensis Thrives Under Constant 14-Hour Photoperiod

Sarracenia 'Daina's Delight' Making Only Phyllodia & Pale Drosera capensis

High-pH Soil for Cut Flower Business: Fast Acidification Before Planting

Plant Disease Identification: Fungi, Bacteria, and Viruses in the Garden

Flowers and Religion: Symbolic Meanings Across Cultures and Faiths

Plants

Mealybugs on Croton: Organic Control for Indoor Plants

Venus Flytrap Flowering and Growth Allocation: Why Full Sun Is Essential

Cutworms or Squirrels? Diagnosing Stem Damage on Impatiens in Alaska

Managing Stink Bugs and Identifying Beneficial Insects on Tomatoes

Day Flowers & Night Flowers: A Garden for All Hours

Start a Flower Garden: Simple Steps for Beginners to Create Outdoor Beauty

Flower Bed Design Ideas: Layouts, Planting Plans, and Creative Combinations