Swarms of greenfly

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Is it just around here?

Just us then, I was smothered in them after only five minutes outside.

Same here (north yorks).

The buggers are everywhere (Leeds). I don't ever remember there being this many.

I'm in Leeds too. The place is filled with them. I'm about to cycle home, I'll be covered!

I'm in Leeds too, on way home from work. There are loads.
There were lots in my back garden yesterday.

We need lots of ladybirds and lacewings to scoff them all.

None in Bradford today, but loads once outside city limits towards Ilkley.

Loads in Stockport the last few days

Yep, tons in York. The cycle home was interesting picks them out of teeth .

Loads in Leeds yesterday and loads eating my flowers in Harrogate, where are they all coming from?

My bloody cars covered in them ( all dead) I drove up the M1 yesterday morning to SYorks and been driving around Sheffield today. Must be all the white roses!

I got covered in my walk home from work today!! They drove me crazy as i just could not avoid them!! There was literally thousands!!

My climbing rose was heaving with them. I've never seen so many before. Had to resort to using a spray. Previous years I've just rinsed with soap water and it's been fine. Wonder if it's something to do with the hot summer last year?

Fascinating fun fact: Baby female greenfly hatch already impregnated by their father greenfly! (From when the male mated with their mother)

So it's no exaggeration to say they multiply rapidly. Hopefully soon there will be an explosion of predators like ladybirds, lacewings, etc, as PP suggested.

Yep our dog walker turned back out of the fields behind our house and chose to walk down the roads. Awful at lunchtime, better this evening.
Sheffield.

Same sheet, loads of the buggers. More oddly, loads of ladybirds crawling out of the curb last week. I've never seen that before.

Never seen them like this before.

They have destroyed my three new rose bushes in a matter of days. They are totally covered in them and just wilting and dying in front of my eyes.

I've seen loads more ants too and blackfly is already ruining the cherry trees in town. They're taking over!

Yep everywhere - how do you get rid of the buggers?

Yep here in the west mids. Noticed them about a week and half ago, keep picking them out my DC hair !

whatsnewchoochoo buy some ladybird larvae, or lacewings, or adults if you want them to work quickly. Let them free on roses or wherever you see aphids, they will eat them, and mate and produce more ladybirds or lacewings.

I buy ladybird larvae every year, and also have a ladybird hotel.

They covered the handheld signature thing the delivery driver handed me today! Ugh!

You can actually buy ladybirds on Amazon. Well I never

I get mine directly from the Green Gardener

www.greengardener.co.uk/

Had a ladybird sitting on my shoulder today while I was painting the fence. Happens once a year, only once, I think it is a reminder to get another batch.

went to Matlock Bath from Halifax on Sunday on the motorbike our helmets look like a greenfly cemetery and all the bikers were saying the same i think the warm weather seems to have brought them out in droves