Aphids

[kilroyscarnival]

I just sprayed the neem oil/soap solution last night. Must not have done such a good job on the otherwise healthy Super Italian Paste tomatoes in the raised bed, because today I noticed one of the plants was just covered with these little green monsters! Gave it a good spray down and it does seem to be killing them.

I Googled for photos of tomato pests, and I'm pretty sure they are aphids.

Saw a recommendation for a garlic oil spray as a repellant. Any opinions on this or alternatives?

I don't see aphids on the other tomato plants in other locations in the yard, and - though admittedly the foliage is so darn dense on the Big Ray's next to the afflicted Super Italian Paste, they don't seem to be on the Big Ray's. Are they that selective? (Spraying well just in case.)

I had mainly been spraying yesterday because some of the other plants (namely, the broad leaves on the haricots vert, and a bit on the snap peas, but also the Wins All-PL, had been pocked with little holes. This I attributed to flea beetles or something I haven't seen.

Yikes! This was a sudden little green army, like an alien invasion.