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Dinner is served #4
This is the first of a series documenting a war being fought at home. I have a plant that is infested with mealybugs. After trying a lot of remedies (including countless hours with cotton swabs wet with alcohol to kill the mealybugs one by one), I found that you can order ladybugs online. Ladybugs are voracious predators of many pests, including mealybugs.
Clearly, they were hard at work, as you can see in this image (the white stuff is half a mealybug). Unfortunately, the ladybugs left before finishing the job, and the population of mealybugs quickly rose again. Continued in this post .
Dinner is served #4
This is the first of a series documenting a war being fought at home. I have a plant that is infested with mealybugs. After trying a lot of remedies (including countless hours with cotton swabs wet with alcohol to kill the mealybugs one by one), I found that you can order ladybugs online. Ladybugs are voracious predators of many pests, including mealybugs.
Clearly, they were hard at work, as you can see in this image (the white stuff is half a mealybug). Unfortunately, the ladybugs left before finishing the job, and the population of mealybugs quickly rose again. Continued in this post .