katanamoon
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This was the scene in my lounge this evening:
![20141221_184139.webp 20141221_184139.webp](https://data.theguineapigforum.co.uk/attachments/17/17222-e3965b80e2306cb651ba9ab7467920d8.jpg?hash=iJvB_Hltwj)
(only, y'know, not sideways...)
This morning we noticed a few beetle-type things wandering around on the carpet. Then a few more appeared. And more. It turns out that we have an infestation of aphids that have come in on the tree and woken up two weeks later due to the heating being on (aka the boiler being fixed). The only way we can safely deal with them without using insecticides or literally taking everything down to shake the tree outside is to hoover them up.
My skin is crawling![sad :( :(](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f622.png)
![20141221_184139.webp 20141221_184139.webp](https://data.theguineapigforum.co.uk/attachments/17/17222-e3965b80e2306cb651ba9ab7467920d8.jpg?hash=iJvB_Hltwj)
(only, y'know, not sideways...)
This morning we noticed a few beetle-type things wandering around on the carpet. Then a few more appeared. And more. It turns out that we have an infestation of aphids that have come in on the tree and woken up two weeks later due to the heating being on (aka the boiler being fixed). The only way we can safely deal with them without using insecticides or literally taking everything down to shake the tree outside is to hoover them up.
My skin is crawling
![sad :( :(](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f622.png)