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@JenniferNoel avatar @JenniferNoel · 4w
Mealy Bugs?! What’s that??? As a plant parent (new or old), I’m sure we’ve all asked that question a time or two! Right?! I know I have, UNTIL TODAY 😧 Well last week when watering my mother of millions, I noticed white like cotton ball’s on the inside of the leaves at the stems! It was extremely little, but sticky like and only a couple! So I thought, that looks familiar and it’s not suppose to be there! I immediately took it in the bathroom by itself and sprayed it down with neem oil! It’s been on the bathroom window sill since then! Tonight, I went to the bathroom and thought it’s been a few days, I should probably check the millions!! So I picked it up and took it to the garage! (Where I do stuff with the plants) I notice a bunch of the leaves are losing their color and falling off when I barely touch them! So I pop off a total of 15 leaves and I notice something moving! I grab the flashlight real quick and sure enough, IT WAS MOVING 🤯 IT WAS THE MEALY BUGS!! If you look closely, at the top of the blue arrow on the leaf, you will SEE a mealy bug! HOLY MOLY, THEY ARE FREAKING FAST AND TINY! As soon as I saw something moving, I bent the leaf down, and that thing took off! Now I see why they mess with our plants and we don’t know until it’s too late! They are soooo freaking tiny and flat, they get on the stem at start of the leaf, and it’s GAME OVER! They win and we lose! Well I changed that today!! JENNIFER - 1 😁 MEALY BUG - DEAD 😵 Now we will TRY to be on the road to recovery ❤️‍🩹 #HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #SucculentLove #PestControl #MotherNature #PlantMoms #MotherOfThousands #MotherOfMillions