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Garden Pests and Diseases: White flies on Virginia Creeper, 1 by Soferdig

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Subject: White flies on Virginia Creeper

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Soferdig wrote:
I have over 2 acres of raised beds and have every species of plant out there. I don't use insecticides and rely on large numbers of wasps to clean up little aphids etc. But at the ending of summer the wasps go to other sweet foods. So I see my populations of white flies go to millions and only on the V creeper. We vacuum all leaves and needles and chip and shred them into compost. But the last 3 years the numbers have increased. We have had the creeper for over 10 years and it seems to just have started. Swarms of white little flies are disturbed with our attempts to spray the leaves and using soap helps but I would like to find a northern predator that will eat these to keep their numbers minimal. Any Ideas? I miss the red colors in the fall on our fences covered with V. Creeper.
This is last year with constant spraying with hose ever other day during the week. Before this all the V. was dead.