Re: Neps and scale insects...

Brett Lymn (blymn@awadi.com.AU)
Fri, 10 Feb 1995 12:10:43 +1030 (CST)

According to Peter Cole:
>
> I'll try a systemic if it ever happens again - 'natural' growing's
> got its place, but if these !@#$%s show up again they're toast!
>

Amen to that :-)

> That may have been the ones - some of them were sort of fluffy and
> white - I'd thought those were larvae, but they might have been a
> different species.
>

No they sound more little the second rider in the sap sucking
apocalypse: mealy bugs. Fortunately they can also be controlled by a
systemic poison. On the subject of systemic poisons, I have applied
the recommended strength of Rogor to all my plants (sarra, drosera,
vft, nepenthes) with no obvious effect on the plants. Just watch
those handling instructions though, these poisons are rather nasty and
even a mild dose can give you symptoms very much like a very bad
cold/influenza i.e. aching joints, headaches, lethargy.

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