insects on sunflower stalks

bazil · Post: # 33751Post **bazil** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 2:33 am

hey

i harvested my sunflowers and was wondering about the various uses for other parts of the plant...the fiber from the stalk...the flower pods....and the head

i already know about uses for the seeds

so i was playing about with the stalks and rmoving the inner pith which is spongy and cool, when i left it over a week to dry(the stalk)...a load of black insects hatched out and were sitting on it....they were about two mil's big and were black im not sure wot they are......and i dont have photos cause i chucked em but i reckon i can get some more soon an photo them ...i tried insect identifying on el web but to no avail

any ideas?

Shirley · Post: # 33765Post **Shirley** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 9:59 am

some kind of aphid? Did they have wings?

nem · Post: # 33891Post **nem** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:08 am

i had those! i just shook them out...all our seed pods are empty we dont know why lol.

bazil · Post: # 34059Post **bazil** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:29 pm

yeh.....i googled aphids and its looks like them...they seemed to hatch out of the stalk