Can anyone tell what has infested my plant? Thanks!
0ft to light, direct
10” pot with drainage
Last watered 16 hours ago
4
With the sticky white substance as additional info, yes, my guess also would be mealies. I'm sorry those are persistent little 💀😡🤪😬
Best practice is spot treatments with isopropyl alcohol 70%. Look into very nook and cranny, they are great at hiding. If you see the white substance, clear sticky substance or black moldy sticky substance near a possible hiding spot, treat that spot on pure suspicion. Wipe down the surrounding surfaces, check the neighboring plants (now and regularly for some weeks from now on), because they can travel. QUARANTINE the affected plant(s). Check them every free days for newly hatched ones. Keep checking and treating like this. For weeks to come. Until you are sure they are gone. Then keep on checking for another month. Then you might win the battle 😀
So far that's the thing that worked best for me at least. They love one of my orchids to bits. And the problem is a) they hide very well, b) they multiply fast once mature (some species lay over a hundred eggs and the newly hatched ones are tiny, making a) even more of a problem). And finally, the most dangerous point that c) they have ridiculously long life cycles. Which really creates a problem if you take your eye off the ball to soon. Because you might miss one, that lays it's eggs, and boom you are overrun 😉
Good luck with them.
I know there are some people that use systemics, but that's not my area of expertise, so I cannot speak to that.
Best practice is spot treatments with isopropyl alcohol 70%. Look into very nook and cranny, they are great at hiding. If you see the white substance, clear sticky substance or black moldy sticky substance near a possible hiding spot, treat that spot on pure suspicion. Wipe down the surrounding surfaces, check the neighboring plants (now and regularly for some weeks from now on), because they can travel. QUARANTINE the affected plant(s). Check them every free days for newly hatched ones. Keep checking and treating like this. For weeks to come. Until you are sure they are gone. Then keep on checking for another month. Then you might win the battle 😀
So far that's the thing that worked best for me at least. They love one of my orchids to bits. And the problem is a) they hide very well, b) they multiply fast once mature (some species lay over a hundred eggs and the newly hatched ones are tiny, making a) even more of a problem). And finally, the most dangerous point that c) they have ridiculously long life cycles. Which really creates a problem if you take your eye off the ball to soon. Because you might miss one, that lays it's eggs, and boom you are overrun 😉
Good luck with them.
I know there are some people that use systemics, but that's not my area of expertise, so I cannot speak to that.
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