Need help 3 quick questions

I have 3 quick questions, this issue is involving 1 plant out of 5. Which sucks cause it’s the nicest 1 out of 5, go figure. 1. Are these orange and black bugs/larvae aphids? Or something else?
2. Is this powdery mildew I noticed a small spot 3 weeks ago and it has spread but not much, either way it’s more significantly noticeable now.
3. I haven’t checked trichome in about a week but on this plant the pistols are starting to recede. All the other plants still have vigorous new pistol growth. Think this might be a week or 2 away?
Not so much a question more of a observation. The night time temperatures have been in the mid 40’s to low 50’s the last week could this have inhibited any of these 3 occurrences?

I never seen those bugs before but mildew has more to do with moisture then temperature. It spreads faster when the combined temperature and humidity added together are above 140.

SuperNutz said:

I never seen those bugs before but mildew has more to do with moisture then temperature. It spreads faster when the combined temperature and humidity added together are above 140.

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Ya I ended up spraying with a baking soda peroxide and dish soap mix, I’ll have to check the humidity, it hasn’t rained in over a week and even before then it was scarce the last month.

heaze2010 said:

Ya I ended up spraying with a baking soda peroxide and dish soap mix, I’ll have to check the humidity, it hasn’t rained in over a week and even before then it was scarce the last month.

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With cooler temperatures I noticed dew gives everything a good drench overnight.

Looks like aphids. I had some earlier in the year and used an organic bug killer derived from chrysanthemum. I had 1000s on the plant and they were gone instantly and plant is now healthy. Only thing is I wouldn’t want to spray it on the flower unless I really had to. Mine was in veg so there was no flower.