Re: scale insects

Brett Lymn (blymn@awadi.com.AU)
Tue, 31 Jan 1995 13:03:55 +1030 (CST)

According to Peter Cole:
>
> I've got an infestation of scale insects on my Nepenthes X
>'coccinea', and despite picking them off by hand several times they
>keep returning. Anyone know if it's safe to use an emulsion or meths
>on Neps or should I just carry on trying to manually remove them? I
>just hope they don't spread to my other plants...
>

A systemic insecticide like Rogor works a treat if you can stand the
smell.

Speaking of Nepenthes problems, I have one that looks like it is
slowly succumbing to some sort of fungus. The plant got badly burnt
and after that the parts of the plant that were not burnt are going
brown and watery/mushy - I have tried a systemic fungicide but that
has not helped much. Has anyone any other treatments?

-- Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, AWA Defence Industries
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