Yes you can rest happily with this organic treatment for your Aphids. It is called ‘spiders’ and they can be found in every garden and often in your own home.

Spiders

• There are over 100 families and nearly 50,000 known species of Spider.
• Spiders eat insects and not your plants although there is one vegetarian species of spider.
• Spiders typically catch their prey in a Spiders Web as depicted on the plant above

Spiders Webs in the Garden

• Orb webs are geometric in shape and often have gaps that any self respecting greenfly can get through.
• Tangle webs or cob webs are finer in structure and designed for smaller prey.
• Most spiders webs are more conspicuous when they hold dew drops or moisture.
• About half the potential prey that hit orb webs escape, so it isn’t a cure for Aphids after all.
• A web intercepts the prey, absorbs its momentum without breaking and traps the prey by entangling it or sticking to it.

Spiders are Good for Gardens

• Read more from Cornell University Dr Linda Rayor
• How to Increase the Number of Spiders in Your Garden

* Use mulch. It provides protection and humidity.
* Provide places for web attachment or homes eg. Crates, tall plants, bundles of hay.
* Leave areas uncultivated and leave plant stalks for overwintering habitats.
* Grow flowers that bring in prey.
* If spraying pesticides, spray when the spiders are less active or use a pesticide that has fewer effects on the spiders.

A spiders ‘evo devo’ and the silk they produce (that is Evolutionary Sevelopment to you and me) is hard science mixed with good writing. from amazon