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Posted 23m ago by @SpyderLily

HELP! SHE'S COVERED IN THEM 😩😩

Jezebel has mealybugs! 😭😭😭 I just doused her with Sevin. I know, I hate chemicals, too, and I try to avoid them at all costs, but I'm afraid the natural and organic stuff just isn't going to work in this scenario. 😣😩 And Sevin has pretty much every type of mealybug known to man on its list of targeted insects.

I have separated her as best I can from everybody else, but I have a tiny property. I guess the one saving grace is that all of my plants are in pots so it's easy to move (most of) them around. The only things I can't really move on my own (due to back issues) are my tomatoes and okra, as they are all in 17+ gallon containers.

I went over everybody else with a fine toothed comb and they were all clean (so far as I can tell), with the exception of Sol, my moonflower, but she only had one and I killed that sucker faster than you can say "dead bug." πŸ˜‘πŸ˜‘ The leaf it was on had been touching Jezebel, so I'm going to attribute the cross contamination to that.

Is there anything else I can do? Do you think the Sevin will work?? Or has the infestation already gone too far? I don't want to lose her 😭 I love my Spicy Janesβ€”they raise pizza to a WHOLE new level!
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6” pot with drainage
Last watered 1 day ago