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I am not committed to aphids. It can still be a care issue. But hard to tell from a distance.

Provide good growing conditions and healthy plants will not have a hard time dealing with the odd insect. Soapy water sprays are enough for me for 99% f the cases, including scale on juniper. Only whooly aphids seem to be immune.

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Jelle. Have you experienced ants going indoors at your location?

Tropfrog wrote:

My experience is the same with most plants. Indoors they are more prone to get aphids. Outside there are wind, rain and predators to limit them. However in Sweden I have never seen ants walk indoors, not in my house or anywhere else. Maybe different species in different locations have different behaviour? Like the walk on water ones in brazil.

In the southeast US we get very little of the freezing weather that controls bugs in most areas. Bugs don't go dormant and can be active all year. This year we had hard frost for three nights just before Christmas and one night in February. Global warming has reduced hard frost significantly.

Another result is that insects are active eating up leaf and other debris, so we have very thin soil and hard clay under that, which has implications for tree roots. Some species send a taproot straight down into the clay to support a long tall trunk. Some spread roots flat for long distances.

It ought to be possible to bake the clay into something like akadama, but I don’t know how.

I have seen a ant down stairs I the conservatory but it lives upstairs and I haven't seen any ants there

Tropfrog wrote:

Jelle. Have you experienced ants going indoors at your location?

Yes. Unfortunately. I have had ants indoors one year when our houseplant ficus (2.5m tall, 2m wide) had a scale infestation and the floor below it was getting coated in mildew. Cleaned the floor, treated the aphids.

Never found where they entered the house, probably through a poor seal.

leatherback wrote:

Never found where they entered the house, probably through a poor seal.

I used to have aphids when I brought them inside but haven’t for a couple of years, just about when I painted and caulking the windows where they sit. Maybe I fixed a problem without knowing I did.

We have found a couple of lizards there over the years, too, but not recently.

Many lizards eat ants. Don't know about the ones you have.