Never seen anything like this before

Cursed at the time - But definitely blessed looking back. I wouldn't have missed seeing it! :lollol:

 

Glad to see the lady birds doing their stuff on your beans and I think you need to send them over to us as this year we hardly have any ladybirds whereas last year our bean plants were like yours,covered in them.

I think the very cold winter we had this year has killed off a lot of the insects we all depend on to get rid of these pests,plus the dry weather isn't helping either:p

 

Shiney, I was wandering around the vegetable garden at Sissinghurst the other day and they were using pot marigolds as 'sacrificial' plants to attract the blackfly. It seemed to be working very well. But then, everything was working suspiciously well. I'm sure that, after the visitors have gone home, they go around zapping everything in sight with tons of heavy duty insecticide and then superglue some dead blackflies on to the marigolds.

 

Was it like this one ?

http://www.scarborougheveningnews.co.uk/news/Twotone-nipper-Harley-is-centre39s.6391581.jp

 

One thing that puzzles me Devongardener, how did you use a marker pen on a virtual photograph ?:usr::okies:

 

It is a digital photograph which is loaded into my PC and brought up in Paint shop pro (or any photo software).
A paint brush is taken from the tool bar of Psp. and the word blackfly and arrow were just painted on to the original picture, save as (to a new title) and then exported in the normal fashion.

Nowadays I do not use a mouse I have converted to stylus and tablet, but using the text tool would do the same description without stylus, mouse writing is very untidy.

Have a go, and if stuck send me a private message.

 

Ha Ha Ziggy, not quite like that, the pincers on the Ladybird were much bigger.:D

 

I've got marigolds around my veggy plots as sacrificial plants too - it does work, honest!