Aphids killing my houseplants

[harktheherold]

I don't know how I ended up with aphids on my houseplants, but they're killing everything ☹️

Does anyone have any tips for getting rid of them and keeping them away?

I dealt with aphids on a pelargonium by inverting the plant and dipping all of it into a bucket of cool soapy water.

You can wipe them off plants with bigger leaves. Do you have any objection to insecticides? What types of plants are affected?

I think they came off a potted herb I'd bought from Tesco. So I thoroughly check all new plants and quarantine the complicated ones, with craggy, hidey foliage.

Thanks for the suggestions - I just wanted to come back to say I tried the soapy water dip technique on my succulents and it worked! Just one week later fresh green baby leaves growing again 🙌

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I don't know how I ended up with aphids on my houseplants, but they're killing everything ☹️ They can fly. In a similar way to bees producing workers, drones and queens, aphids produce both winged and unwinged forms.

They’re easy enough to deal with with soapy water (water with just enough soap to break surface tension - it’s the water that’s killing them, not the soap), so insecticide is not justified.

you can also put them outside for the summer and let the tits deal with them, but beware slugs