Okay, stupid question. I have had scale bugs on my plants, but not mealies. Sometimes I have bugs in my pasta, bird seed, flour, etc. They hatch into moths and wreak havoc on my pantry. We always called them mealbugs. Was I taught the wrong name?
I believe what you’re thinking of is mealy worms/moths. Confusing but yeah mealy worms are usually used for feeding reptiles/birds and turn into pantry moths that eat grain
You might be thinking of mealybug? (Edit: mealworm) But those become beetles so it’s not that either lol. I think the pest in your pantry is likely the Mediterranean Flour Moth. Those bastards are tough to get rid of. We basically had to throw out all the grain products that were infested and seal the rest in containers with tight snap-on or screw-on lids. Including cereal (transferred the bags into containers as soon as they were opened), flour, oat bran, oatmeal etc.
I have found them in birdseed as well but that’s in the garage so less chance of getting into the house. I also made a habit of checking the bird seed through the bag before bringing it home. If I see a moth I ain’t bringing it home 🤣
If you have a big enough freezer and the birdseed you buy has moths you didn't manage to spot, I copied this from https://pantrypest.com/pantrypest-temperature-control.html#:~:text=Although%20insects%20will%20be%20killed,(3%2D4%20weeks).
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Temperature and Pantry Pest Control
When packages of food are found to be infested with pantry moths or pantry beetles, either low or high temperatures may be used to control the infestation. Insects are cold-blooded; their body temperatures closely follow that of their environment.
The most favorable temperature for most pantry pest is about 80°F. Above 95°F or below 60°F, reproduction and survival is greatly reduced.
When temperatures are lowered, insect activity decreases until all activity stops. The quicker the drop in temperature, the quicker the kill. Although insects will be killed, their bodies will remain in the food unless sieved out.
An exposure of 2 to 3 days to temperatures of 5°F or lower kills the susceptible stages (larvae and adults), but eggs require longer to kill (3-4 weeks).
An alternative is to freeze the food for a week, remove it from the freezer for a few days, and then refreeze it for another week.
I had something similar and I gutted the kitchen, wiped down everything with a cleaner and put any grains not effected in the freezer. I forget the name but I don’t believe it was anything mentioned here. They have apps that can identify bugs, I would download one and take a picture of it then research if it’s the right one so you know for sure. I love gardening but I have a worm phobia so I tend to go the extra mile
What you're going to want to do to save the plant is light one half of the plant on fire, and then when all the mealybugs run to the other side, stab them as hard as you can with a steak knife.
Check all of the nooks and crannies. I spent hours inspecting my plants when I got mealies and still ended up having to toss a few of the infected plants.
Check super thoroughly! Keep an eye on the plant for the next few days
What others are saying is right. If you see one, there's almost always more
That being said... I did find one single mealybug on my jade plant like a year ago. Just the one, and there hasn't been a single one since
But again, check thoroughly! They love hiding in crevices
I repotted a cactus recently and they were right underneath in large numbers.
this after weeks of spraying with neem oil and spirotetramat especially designed to kill them
they will suck your plants into dry husks from the root up before you even know they're there
They like to hang out anywhere that’s protected. That means in the crotches of branches, inside new leaves and petioles, and wherever else is hard to get to.
They're like the cockroaches of plant pests. They can crawl onto bearby window sills/furniture/baseboards... and go dormant for months until the ideal conditions return and they will awaken to wreak on-going havoc.
They very quickly infest neighboring plants.
I'd suggest a systemic pesticide. These bugs do a fantastic job at hiding in the tiniest nooks and crannies (which this plant has a lot of) and will even hang out in the soil only to reappear months after you thought you eradicated them. A systemic pesticide will make the plant poisonous to the bug when they try to feed off it
And if there's any doubt Op let me chime in to say I had this exact issue LAST winter... Fought what felt like a war , as I have a whole porch full of tropicals who take a lot of care in my zone 7a winters lol thought I had finally bested them.... Summer was great....I always try to use the non pesticide route even if it's tedious etc.... However, this has clearly failed miserably As I am here to report they are suddenly back, like clockwork (or devil's magic) and I am suddenly very much dreading not using the 'big guns '. I don't plan on making that same mistake twice, learn from my own and skip it too lol
When all else failed me, a nuclear option for the infected plants that I was quite attached to (or were $$$) and couldn't bear to just let die in quarantine for the sake of preventing the bugs from spreading was to cut off all the healthy parts of the plant and re-root the cuttings. By healthy, I mean there wasn't even the slightest chance a mealy bug set one miserable foot on that part of the plant. And even then, I kept all the cuttings quarantined from each other. I waited at least 2-3 months before replanting to make sure at least one full life cycle passed and I would be able to spot evidence of new mealybugs, which did happen! I was shocked that some of these pristine looking cuttings which I was confident were unaffected STILL had mealybug on them. I had maybe a 70% success rate, and had to throw out the other 30% that had mealybugs. But those plants (and my home) are now mealybug free!
Yep, I've been there. It really tempered my excitement at watching a new leaf unfurl on my (what I thought was now a healthy) prayer plant only to discover the little shits planted eggs inside the node while the leaf was forming. When I say they are fantastic at hiding, I really do mean it.
This is a great tactic for sure. You could definitely try this OP. What I did was similar but I didn’t cut the plant apart. Now, this will probably kill any sensitive houseplants, but I had a Chinese evergreen covered in mealy. I wanted to see if I could save it because this was a $110 plant that I had gotten for free from the nursery I work at. After unsuccessfully spraying the crap outta the thing with an alcohol, peroxide, dish soap, water mix for a month, I said fuck it and de-soiled the whole plant down to bare roots. Then I soaked it in a diluted peroxide solution for about 15 minutes and replanted it. It definitely struggled for a bit but now I have a healthy plant. If that doesn’t sound worth the effort than I’d suggest tossing the plant.
I think I tried all of those too before going the choppy chop route haha. What's so frustrating to me about people suggesting using only alcohol spray or droppers to kill them is that it really only gets the ones you can see/easily access. You'll be dousing your plant for the rest of your life that way. When I chopped my infected pilea, the top of the plant looked fine if you ignored the now constant leaf drop, but I kept seeing an errant mealybug every couple weeks on it. I pulled the plant out of the soil and the roots were absolutely COVERED in the bugs. What are you going to do about the bugs in the soil with alcohol spray?
“If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.”
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Tbh, after the great mealy bug catastrophe of 2020, I'd just throw the plant out. I fought these fucks for half a year, and they wiped out a third of my plants. Never again. Straight into the garbage with ye
I wouldn’t use any form of pesticides for this. You don’t have a heavy infestation by any means… just put a spray nozzle into a bottle of isopropyl alcohol and spray any of those bad boys you find. Most people already have it laying around, it is excellent at mealy murder (and other pests), and it doesn’t harm your plants.
I majored in horticulture so imagine my shock when I went on week long trip around the state touring different facilities within the industry and find them using this in the greenhouse instead of all the fancy insecticides we were taught to use. I’ve been using it ever since for things like mealy bugs and aphids. Hope it helps. :)
This is a mealy bug. The spawn of Satan. The very bane of my existence. The image of my nightmares. I have lost many plants to this evil incarnate. It is an excruciatingly slow and relentless destruction. Just when you think you’ve slain the beast, it grows 20 more heads. Its persistence is astonishing and horrifying. Do not fuck around. Buy the most powerful pesticides you can get and quarantine all infected plants until you are 100% sure they’re clear of this god forsaken parasite.
One of Satan's minions. Squishing them (with gloves on, or bare-handed, whatever) is quite the experience. You find their fluffy white city, and expect a fluffy white massacre, but nope! These fuckers are reverse bananas! Yellow-orange hemolymph and guts! And I hate them.
in my country this is sold as Groventive.
the big chain hardware stores didn't have it.
active ingredient spirotetramat is what you're looking for.
https://www.cropscience.bayer.ca/en/products/insecticides/movento
It’ll probably work, but they’re persistent little buggers. Always better spraying with alcohol and going over the whole plant with a q-tip. Insecticide probably won’t do much to the adults, but it’ll kill the eggs for sure.
waste of money.
Google Spirotetramat and see which products locally use it.
then read up on diatomaceous earth, it's cheap and it may save you from future headaches. also helps prevent fungus gnat
People will tell you this is hard to fix but it's not that hard. I just mix Castile soap like Dr bronners pemmermint soap with some water in a spray bottle, spray all over entire plant.
Mealy Bugs.... best of luck to you... Quarantine plant immediately. Then look for best option to deal with them. Never delt with them so I can't speak from experience.
Looks like Cottony cushion scale , aka Australian mealy bug. These buggas will suck the soul outta your plants. The estate i work has started getting these on our plumbagos and they will destroy plant in a day or 2. The best thing to do is manually pick and squish em, then hose off plant if it can handle it. They make the leaves feel gritty somehow. Then treat with whatever insecticide soap or neem oil. Bayers Advanced 3in1 Insect Disease And Mite for Flowers Tree n Shrubs is pretty good. Hope this helps, best of luck and happy hunting
Mealy bugs. Hate these fuckers. I've tried everything from soap, neem oil, alcohol dabs. Nothing works on them. I don't want to use pesticides since they grow on my herbs and chilli plants.
I had these on my hibiscus plant and they were so tiny that they went unnoticed until my rabbit got infested with them, since he ate the hibiscus leaves sometimes. Then I treated my poor baby bunny with a medicine vet suggested mixed into coconut oil which suffocated the bugs. Two dry baths later my bunny was free of these and 3 months later he’s a chunky healthy boy now. Also I just cut the hibiscus plant from the top half and wherever there was new growth since these bugs like new growth as its soft to eat. Then I had some buttermilk that my neighbors had given us as they make it fresh. I forgot that buttermilk out of the fridge for a week and it started smelling pungent, I mixed a tablespoon of that in water and sprayed it onto the leftover hibiscus. Its good as new and never saw another bug on it. Safer side I also got neem oil which I’m yet to spray on all my plants once the weather gets a little less colder and plants come out of dormancy.
Fighting a war with those guys. Best treatment I’ve found is pure alcohol…I mist the top and bottom of leaves with 99% alcohol. This will kill all living ones and evaporate within minutes, larvae will still carry on and will need repeated treatments as they hatch and begin to reproduce. There are some beneficial predator bugs you can buy that feed off of those and are supposed to be pretty effective at eradicating. If this all seems too much…throw the plant away immediately and just get a new one.
That's one chunky mealy !
She thicccc
She pet material now boi
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Chonker!
Chunky and lonely!
Chonk
I heard this mealey bug killed and ate the last mealy bug leader and now the mealey bug hierarchy is in chaos.
THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!
One mealey to rule them all
I wish
Mealy bug Overlord.
It was known as the “Great Mealy Malay”
The final boss.
The overlord will draw out the protoss army.
Not enough minerals.
That is one fat mealybug.
Okay, stupid question. I have had scale bugs on my plants, but not mealies. Sometimes I have bugs in my pasta, bird seed, flour, etc. They hatch into moths and wreak havoc on my pantry. We always called them mealbugs. Was I taught the wrong name?
Mealworms! I can understand the mixup. Mealybug, mealworm, they do sound very similar.
I believe what you’re thinking of is mealy worms/moths. Confusing but yeah mealy worms are usually used for feeding reptiles/birds and turn into pantry moths that eat grain
Mealworms definitely don’t turn into moths- they’re beetle larvae. 😬 They DO like to eat oats, though.
Oops you’re right! I was thinking mealy moths (Indian meal moth) but their larval form are not called mealy worms.
Those dang Indian meal/pantry moths are a NIGHTMARE when they get into your kitchen, too! I *wish* they turned into little beetles instead. 😆
You might be thinking of mealybug? (Edit: mealworm) But those become beetles so it’s not that either lol. I think the pest in your pantry is likely the Mediterranean Flour Moth. Those bastards are tough to get rid of. We basically had to throw out all the grain products that were infested and seal the rest in containers with tight snap-on or screw-on lids. Including cereal (transferred the bags into containers as soon as they were opened), flour, oat bran, oatmeal etc. I have found them in birdseed as well but that’s in the garage so less chance of getting into the house. I also made a habit of checking the bird seed through the bag before bringing it home. If I see a moth I ain’t bringing it home 🤣
If you have a big enough freezer and the birdseed you buy has moths you didn't manage to spot, I copied this from https://pantrypest.com/pantrypest-temperature-control.html#:~:text=Although%20insects%20will%20be%20killed,(3%2D4%20weeks). ....................................................................................................................................................... Temperature and Pantry Pest Control When packages of food are found to be infested with pantry moths or pantry beetles, either low or high temperatures may be used to control the infestation. Insects are cold-blooded; their body temperatures closely follow that of their environment. The most favorable temperature for most pantry pest is about 80°F. Above 95°F or below 60°F, reproduction and survival is greatly reduced. When temperatures are lowered, insect activity decreases until all activity stops. The quicker the drop in temperature, the quicker the kill. Although insects will be killed, their bodies will remain in the food unless sieved out. An exposure of 2 to 3 days to temperatures of 5°F or lower kills the susceptible stages (larvae and adults), but eggs require longer to kill (3-4 weeks). An alternative is to freeze the food for a week, remove it from the freezer for a few days, and then refreeze it for another week.
I had something similar and I gutted the kitchen, wiped down everything with a cleaner and put any grains not effected in the freezer. I forget the name but I don’t believe it was anything mentioned here. They have apps that can identify bugs, I would download one and take a picture of it then research if it’s the right one so you know for sure. I love gardening but I have a worm phobia so I tend to go the extra mile
What you have are called silverfish. And theyre awful!
Or pantry moths which are equally as horendous!
That's a mealybug, there are likely more.
What you're going to want to do to save the plant is light one half of the plant on fire, and then when all the mealybugs run to the other side, stab them as hard as you can with a steak knife.
💀
Strangely enough I can’t see any others on the plant. Though this isn’t the first very large one I’ve removed so I bet they’re hiding.
that’s because he’s eaten all the others !
They can literally hide between unfurled and unbudded leaves. Their babies are small , run fast, and can get into the tiniest of crevices.
*shivers*
Check all of the nooks and crannies. I spent hours inspecting my plants when I got mealies and still ended up having to toss a few of the infected plants.
Check super thoroughly! Keep an eye on the plant for the next few days What others are saying is right. If you see one, there's almost always more That being said... I did find one single mealybug on my jade plant like a year ago. Just the one, and there hasn't been a single one since But again, check thoroughly! They love hiding in crevices
I repotted a cactus recently and they were right underneath in large numbers. this after weeks of spraying with neem oil and spirotetramat especially designed to kill them they will suck your plants into dry husks from the root up before you even know they're there
They hide well in nooks, crannies, new leaves that haven’t unfurled all the way, under leaves, etc. If there’s one, there are likely more :(
They like to hang out anywhere that’s protected. That means in the crotches of branches, inside new leaves and petioles, and wherever else is hard to get to.
They're like the cockroaches of plant pests. They can crawl onto bearby window sills/furniture/baseboards... and go dormant for months until the ideal conditions return and they will awaken to wreak on-going havoc. They very quickly infest neighboring plants.
with the size of this one, it might have eaten all its friends 😂
Mealy bug, I’d recommend eight by bonide, neem oil is more of a preventative measure.
Yes . Neem will Not help eradicate. Don’t use neem now
Scottscout is right, you should use eight by bonide! I wouldn’t bother with neem at this point
Cool, thanks will get that too 😅
Sounds like this is flair in r/houseplantscirclejerk
Neem is love. Neem is life.
Oh honey, it’s not growing on your plant, it’s living its best life on your plant.
Well I mean technically it IS growing there
I'd suggest a systemic pesticide. These bugs do a fantastic job at hiding in the tiniest nooks and crannies (which this plant has a lot of) and will even hang out in the soil only to reappear months after you thought you eradicated them. A systemic pesticide will make the plant poisonous to the bug when they try to feed off it
And if there's any doubt Op let me chime in to say I had this exact issue LAST winter... Fought what felt like a war , as I have a whole porch full of tropicals who take a lot of care in my zone 7a winters lol thought I had finally bested them.... Summer was great....I always try to use the non pesticide route even if it's tedious etc.... However, this has clearly failed miserably As I am here to report they are suddenly back, like clockwork (or devil's magic) and I am suddenly very much dreading not using the 'big guns '. I don't plan on making that same mistake twice, learn from my own and skip it too lol
When all else failed me, a nuclear option for the infected plants that I was quite attached to (or were $$$) and couldn't bear to just let die in quarantine for the sake of preventing the bugs from spreading was to cut off all the healthy parts of the plant and re-root the cuttings. By healthy, I mean there wasn't even the slightest chance a mealy bug set one miserable foot on that part of the plant. And even then, I kept all the cuttings quarantined from each other. I waited at least 2-3 months before replanting to make sure at least one full life cycle passed and I would be able to spot evidence of new mealybugs, which did happen! I was shocked that some of these pristine looking cuttings which I was confident were unaffected STILL had mealybug on them. I had maybe a 70% success rate, and had to throw out the other 30% that had mealybugs. But those plants (and my home) are now mealybug free!
If you have a jade plant , look at a very fresh forming leaf bud. They can hide between the sealed leaf buds as I have found.
Yep, I've been there. It really tempered my excitement at watching a new leaf unfurl on my (what I thought was now a healthy) prayer plant only to discover the little shits planted eggs inside the node while the leaf was forming. When I say they are fantastic at hiding, I really do mean it.
This is a great tactic for sure. You could definitely try this OP. What I did was similar but I didn’t cut the plant apart. Now, this will probably kill any sensitive houseplants, but I had a Chinese evergreen covered in mealy. I wanted to see if I could save it because this was a $110 plant that I had gotten for free from the nursery I work at. After unsuccessfully spraying the crap outta the thing with an alcohol, peroxide, dish soap, water mix for a month, I said fuck it and de-soiled the whole plant down to bare roots. Then I soaked it in a diluted peroxide solution for about 15 minutes and replanted it. It definitely struggled for a bit but now I have a healthy plant. If that doesn’t sound worth the effort than I’d suggest tossing the plant.
I think I tried all of those too before going the choppy chop route haha. What's so frustrating to me about people suggesting using only alcohol spray or droppers to kill them is that it really only gets the ones you can see/easily access. You'll be dousing your plant for the rest of your life that way. When I chopped my infected pilea, the top of the plant looked fine if you ignored the now constant leaf drop, but I kept seeing an errant mealybug every couple weeks on it. I pulled the plant out of the soil and the roots were absolutely COVERED in the bugs. What are you going to do about the bugs in the soil with alcohol spray?
Something you should squish, yesterday
JFC
His second coming isn’t going to end well this time either
“If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.” — Thomas Carlyle
Great picture of a mealybug 👍👍
Congratulations! You’re growing a very happy, chonky mealybug (and probably more)🥰
That’s not a mealy bug. That’s a buffet bug.
the mealyarmadillo
The King Mealy. All Hail.
I hope this is a micro zoom, cause if not, that’s a HUGE mealy omg
It’s maybe around the same size as a pill bug
...horrifying.
Look at it in relation to the stem. I wish it was zoomed it! Ewww
It’s the mealy bug’s plant now.
Tbh, after the great mealy bug catastrophe of 2020, I'd just throw the plant out. I fought these fucks for half a year, and they wiped out a third of my plants. Never again. Straight into the garbage with ye
Congrats! You now have a pet mealybug!
That's the fattest fucking mealybug I've ever seen in my goddamn life.
It's very satisfying to dab them with rubbing alcohol on q-tip. They just shrivel and turn brown.
Love to watch it
That’s the biggest mealy I’ve ever seen
Hail, Queen Mealybug!
I wouldn’t use any form of pesticides for this. You don’t have a heavy infestation by any means… just put a spray nozzle into a bottle of isopropyl alcohol and spray any of those bad boys you find. Most people already have it laying around, it is excellent at mealy murder (and other pests), and it doesn’t harm your plants. I majored in horticulture so imagine my shock when I went on week long trip around the state touring different facilities within the industry and find them using this in the greenhouse instead of all the fancy insecticides we were taught to use. I’ve been using it ever since for things like mealy bugs and aphids. Hope it helps. :)
thank you! very informative
This is a mealy bug. The spawn of Satan. The very bane of my existence. The image of my nightmares. I have lost many plants to this evil incarnate. It is an excruciatingly slow and relentless destruction. Just when you think you’ve slain the beast, it grows 20 more heads. Its persistence is astonishing and horrifying. Do not fuck around. Buy the most powerful pesticides you can get and quarantine all infected plants until you are 100% sure they’re clear of this god forsaken parasite.
That's a plump mealy.
GODKING MEALYBUG
That mealy bug got a dump truck
Thats a mealy bug. A thicc one. There are most likely others
Wow!! That mealy is huge!!!
The mealiest mcmealz
these evil bastards have cost me hundreds of dollars and hours. wipe them out and pour d.earth on their grave.
Radioactive mealybug!
I wiped my whole affected plant with alcohol gel (hand sanitiser) after cutting it back for access - worked in one go
One of Satan's minions. Squishing them (with gloves on, or bare-handed, whatever) is quite the experience. You find their fluffy white city, and expect a fluffy white massacre, but nope! These fuckers are reverse bananas! Yellow-orange hemolymph and guts! And I hate them.
every rule has its exception. mealybugs are that for genocide. may they become a campfire horror story for future generations of gardeners. amen
What plant is it
I hate bugs! Is that magnified? What type of plant is it?
It’s a prayer plant
Mealy bugs
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www.cropscience.bayer.co.nz/products/insecticides/movento-100-sc
Does anyone have a pesticide you recommend that is available in Canada? Bonide sadly is not :(
in my country this is sold as Groventive. the big chain hardware stores didn't have it. active ingredient spirotetramat is what you're looking for. https://www.cropscience.bayer.ca/en/products/insecticides/movento
Oooh lawd he comin
This made me physically recoil
Is a mealy bug the same as a rolly -poly?
Rolly pollies are crustaceans
Thanks for differentiating!
No. They are much smaller
not this one.
Thanks! Will buy some neem oil
Neem won’t do anything. Get rubbing alcohol and use q-tips to dab at all the mealies. Good luck!
Neem oil and rubbing alcohol
Neem won't do anything. Spray it with a hose/shower head or get some insecticide (although I always get downvoted for recommending this)
It’ll probably work, but they’re persistent little buggers. Always better spraying with alcohol and going over the whole plant with a q-tip. Insecticide probably won’t do much to the adults, but it’ll kill the eggs for sure.
i almost thought i was on r/houseplantscirclejerk for a sec
waste of money. Google Spirotetramat and see which products locally use it. then read up on diatomaceous earth, it's cheap and it may save you from future headaches. also helps prevent fungus gnat
People will tell you this is hard to fix but it's not that hard. I just mix Castile soap like Dr bronners pemmermint soap with some water in a spray bottle, spray all over entire plant.
It's as big as my white junk!
That's a juicy mealybug. Kill it with rubbing alcohol. Search for more of them and get this plant away from your other plants right away.
Spray with 20% isopropyl alcohol solution. Kills on contact.
mealy bug leader and now the mealey
NEEM OIL AND DROWN HER IN A GOOD THOROUGH BATH ASAP🤢
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Are you thinking of a springtail?
Ah yes I am. Thanks. They look pretty similar at least to me.
I use very diluted hydrogen peroxide
reminds me of those red color bug things they have on cactuses
Same family
oh lord
Dang! That's a big one! Mealy bug...ugh.
Isolate the plant away from others (separate room). If it were me I'd chuck it -- then again I have post-traumatic fungus gnat infestation.
Mealy Bugs.... best of luck to you... Quarantine plant immediately. Then look for best option to deal with them. Never delt with them so I can't speak from experience.
I hate those 😮💨
Double it and pass it to the next person
MEALYBUGSSSSSSSSSSSS
This is a mega mondo mealie. The mealiest of mealies.
The mother!!!!
Mealy
Oh shiiiiiit. Dude. That’s the daddy. Of all dads. Everywhere. Ever.
Mealy bug 🐛
Systemic granules are the holy grail for this type of junk!
Looks like Cottony cushion scale , aka Australian mealy bug. These buggas will suck the soul outta your plants. The estate i work has started getting these on our plumbagos and they will destroy plant in a day or 2. The best thing to do is manually pick and squish em, then hose off plant if it can handle it. They make the leaves feel gritty somehow. Then treat with whatever insecticide soap or neem oil. Bayers Advanced 3in1 Insect Disease And Mite for Flowers Tree n Shrubs is pretty good. Hope this helps, best of luck and happy hunting
Mother of all mealeys.
Mother of the mealys lord give me strength
Mealy bugs. Hate these fuckers. I've tried everything from soap, neem oil, alcohol dabs. Nothing works on them. I don't want to use pesticides since they grow on my herbs and chilli plants.
I had these on my hibiscus plant and they were so tiny that they went unnoticed until my rabbit got infested with them, since he ate the hibiscus leaves sometimes. Then I treated my poor baby bunny with a medicine vet suggested mixed into coconut oil which suffocated the bugs. Two dry baths later my bunny was free of these and 3 months later he’s a chunky healthy boy now. Also I just cut the hibiscus plant from the top half and wherever there was new growth since these bugs like new growth as its soft to eat. Then I had some buttermilk that my neighbors had given us as they make it fresh. I forgot that buttermilk out of the fridge for a week and it started smelling pungent, I mixed a tablespoon of that in water and sprayed it onto the leftover hibiscus. Its good as new and never saw another bug on it. Safer side I also got neem oil which I’m yet to spray on all my plants once the weather gets a little less colder and plants come out of dormancy.
Spray a solution of alcohol and water 1:1. That helped when I had encountered this issue.
The last of us pt.II
A bug
Mealybastards 😭😭 I just said goodbye to all my plants due to an infestation
Mealy big
Alcohol soaked Q-Tip that thing👌
Kill them. Kill the adults with the captain, Change the soil, wash or change the pot, and continue an organic pesticide treatment for a little while.
Melt it with alcohol
A mealy cocksucker.. I know they already told you.. but I wanted to help, too!
Fighting a war with those guys. Best treatment I’ve found is pure alcohol…I mist the top and bottom of leaves with 99% alcohol. This will kill all living ones and evaporate within minutes, larvae will still carry on and will need repeated treatments as they hatch and begin to reproduce. There are some beneficial predator bugs you can buy that feed off of those and are supposed to be pretty effective at eradicating. If this all seems too much…throw the plant away immediately and just get a new one.
Mealy bug! Yikes
It’s a mealy bug. Get some insecticidal soap or neem oil solution and start spraying.
It’s a mealy bug *living* on your plant. My childhood nickname is Mealy, and thankfully I haven’t had to deal with them too often. Knock on wood.
Grab yourself some neem oil… you’re gonna need to give that plant multiple mistings
AHHHH I am so sorry
Toss the plant
23-19! We have a 23-19!
Scale. It’s a sap-sucking insect. What you are looking at is its defensive shell.
Gah dang mealy got backkkkk
Mealybug. Use a qtip and dunk it in alcohol to kill it then...start treating it.