On the up side, they hatched and moved away.
On the down side, they moved to my lettuce.
I think they are aphids.They look every bit as exciting and sociable as sea monkeys.
I don't think they are going to be my friend.
There are a few ways to get rid of aphids. One way is to wait until I sort out my spider based sticky trap, and the other is to buy a few sticky traps.
After a few attempts at spider relocation, I'm unconvinced that my current method will ever pay dividends, so I guess it's off to the garden section of my nearest hardware.
I've also heard you can use a hand held vacuum cleaner to vacuum them out of your garden. I knew it would eventually be useful. Lucky for me I've been keeping an unused dust-buster handy for the last fifteen years, just in case a mass invasion of tiny bugs should threaten to over run us, and install themselves as our insectoid overlords.
When wearing my foil helmet, and with my dust-buster in its holster, people used to point and laugh derisively at me.
Well, not any more.
Not any more.
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