composting mealy aphid

[vivienz]

I cleared away all my old broccoli today, which has an impressive infestation of mealy aphid - is it okay to chuck the leaves, aphids and all, onto the compost heap or will they survive to infest another day?

[retropants]

my similarly stricken plants are going to be burned!!

[vivienz]

Perhaps I could persuade my next door neighbour to put them on his very stinky barbeque - it won't smell any worse than his usual Sunday afternoon cremation session!