How To Use Greenfly In A Sentence
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Sponge the woolly bits with neat washing-up liquid, suggests a reader who says her father used to deal with greenfly on his roses in this way.
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Greenfly can literally suck a plant dry.
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Greenfly can literally suck a plant dry.
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Shrub roses underplanted with catmint or lavender will seldom suffer from greenfly infestations.
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Fortunately ladybirds love to eat greenfly and they can help the gardener to control them without having to use chemical sprays which can also kill helpful insects.
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Also, our garden seems to be the home for all the blackfly and greenfly in England, so the plants often get overwhelmed.
Plants are Flowering: 2008 Garden Update #5
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I'm afraid I've never heard of blackfly or greenfly, but I do know that spraying soapy water on the plants is a good way to discourage pests.
Plants are Flowering: 2008 Garden Update #5
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Hmm, nodded the others in agreement, as if they were on Gardeners Question Time and someone had just made a valid point about greenfly.
What's Going On
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This elegant insect is a formidable greenfly guzzler and its larvae are particularly good at exterminating these ubiquitous pests.
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The greenfly, another live-bearer, has evolved a way of overcoming even this limitation.
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But if he really wanted to be ecologically sound he should introduce into the garden some fast breeding ladybirds - which eat greenfly by the thousand.
Mistaken Identity
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He and Mary have moved into a new bungalow on the farm and greenfly are playing havoc with Mary's roses.
Mistaken Identity
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Shrub roses underplanted with catmint or lavender will seldom suffer from greenfly infestations.
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Unfortuantely for the makers, those of us who were around in the 80's can remember Mrs T. casually swatting Ken and the GLC aside much as one might squash a greenfly on a rose bush so that description doesn't hold any weight at all, does it ?
OPEN THREAD
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This method is effective enough with greenfly.
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The leaves of my water lily are covered in greenfly.
Times, Sunday Times
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This method is effective enough with greenfly.
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Wipe greenfly off plants with your fingers or spray plants with soft soap or a pesticide containing pirimicarb.
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They crawl from hair to hair and look rather like brown greenfly.
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Ferns and coralroot orchids grow in the deep woods, while greenfly orchids and resurrection ferns adorn the live oak branches.
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Watch for greenfly on pots of cuttings on windowsills.
Times, Sunday Times
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The story makes it seem more like the greenfly was a human creation, but here it's suggested as something much older made possible by getting rid of the Inhibitors but possibly that's a false theory.
Archive 2005-01-02
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The Mock Orange bush has a bad case of black fly already, and the rose bush has greenfly.
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Greenfly can literally suck a plant dry.
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Spray roses in pots with water daily to keep humidity up; watch out for greenfly and other pests.
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They should be encouraged as a method of controlling greenfly naturally.
The Sun
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The grubs of the delicate lacewing gorge themselves on greenfly, as well as leafhoppers and other soft-bodied pests.
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Greenfly can literally suck a plant dry.
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That is good to know about greenfly, it sounds like a dreaded pest.
Desert Island Dreams « Fairegarden
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Then she went to the garden centre and bought pyrethrum with which to spray the greenfly.
Times, Sunday Times
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The gardener's friend, the busy little ladybird helps by eating aphids and greenfly.
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Most common are greenfly on roses and blackfly on nasturtiums and broad beans, but dozens of their relations also attack other plants.
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It's a good idea to spray your roses against greenfly.
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For safe and effective control of greenfly a range of products can be used.
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The larvae of hoverflies consume vast numbers of greenfly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Herbs like borage, sage and hyssop are excellent food sources for these beneficial insects, so they could be planted in the flower borders to prevent pests like greenfly from damaging other plants in the border.
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I told him that he could take the easy way out and buy some greenfly killer from the garden centre.
Mistaken Identity
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But the sunny weather has suited greenfly and blackfly, while mildew has affected several plants.
