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A Mealybug is almost the filthiest pest your plants could have. If you have them, you need to know how to kill mealybugs. This petty beast is small and comes in several forms and sizes. A few male mealybugs have wings and do fly, however most of these pests are small, have long tails and numerous waxy fibrils on the body. If you look at them through a microscope, you may be startled to discover that they kind of favor a palid porcupine.
Before I tell you everything about how to kill mealybugs, let me first show you how you can detect if your plants have mealybugs. It isn't particularly difficult. Mealybugs are able to invade both inside and outside plants. Whenever you have plants that look oddly scrawny, are brown on the leaves or have curled, unhealthy foliage, you could have an aphid or a mealybug problem. The solution, thankfully, is identical for both critters.
Now, let's get to the business of how to kill mealybugs - yuck!
Whenever you think you may have mealybugs damaging your plants, pray that the plants are outside plants! Whenever this plague is outdoors, expose some ladybugs to the troubled plants and allow the ladybugs do their thing. Ladybugs will feed on hundreds of mealybugs and their larvae in a single day. Therefore surf the Net or visit you local garden store and purchase some ladybugs.
Nevertheless, inside plants are a more difficult matter. As a matter of fact, if you've kept your inside plants outdoors at any time, you could have brought the mealybugs inside with the plant when you brought it back into your house. At any rate, there are some alternatives for handling these critters with inside plants.
*To avoid the use of pesticides, use rubbing alcohol. You should use a cotton swab and dip it into the alcohol; next search and kill every bug. Whenever you discover a colony, douse them to kill. If just a single critter gets away, it could repopulate another colony, because mealybugs don't always require fertilization to procreate.
*Sometimes plants are too damaged to be salvaged. Thoroughly clean one part of the plant and acquire a cutting. Next through away the plant. This is particularly necessary whenever you have mealybugs infesting the rootages.
Now that you know how to kill mealybugs, I wish you all the best with getting rid of mealy bugs. They're not mealworms! They're little, disgusting critters and you need to try diligently to avoid them.
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Author Bio Box: Jared Garrett
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