Biological warfare: unleashing the hounds
Seriously, aside from grapefruit sized mosquitos, is there a more annoying insect than the common aphid? These voracious pests can decimate an entire collection of plants, seemingly overnight, leaving the innocent gardener more melodramatic and distraught than Mel Gibson's Gladiator. This was me in May. And let me tell you, I was pissed. worse, the malevolent critters were only attacking the newest growth, so even if I went out twice a week with a spray bottle of hot pepper sauce, they'd be back and munching away again before I noticed it. I realized at that point I had two options: bomb the yard with the strongest DDT I could find, or unleash my own legion of high predators (um, mantiples with mandiples?) to keep the aphid population under control. Enter…
