My first vampire experience was watching Bela Lugosi as Dracula. I remember it clearly ~ the cape, the eyes, the fangs: a classic! I must have seen the movie right about when I discovered what an aphid was. I remember seeing hundreds of these little greenish bugs, lined up and down the plant stems in my mom's garden. I swear they all had little capes, glowing eyes and the fangs. They were clearly sucking the blood out of those poor plants! If I put one on my neck, would it bite me, too? What if one was already on my neck, sucking my blood? Quick, better check my arms and legs - MMMOMMMM!
That was when I was 25... actually about 10 and yes, I had quite an imagination.
Or did I? Consider this:
Vampires: sometimes has wings, sometimes doesn't
Aphids: ditto
Vampires: sucks blood
Aphids: sucks (plant) blood
Vampires: injects toxins into host
Aphids: ditto
Vampires: leaves nasty looking puncture wounds
Aphids: ditto (named the ever so attractive "sooty mold")
Vampires: repelled by garlic
Aphids: well, not really...
To learn more about these B movie garden invaders and how to keep them from turning your garden into a Transylvanian movie set, click here.
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| Bela Lugosi as Dracula |
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