MEALY BUGS!!!!!!

shannon1 4/8/2011, 5:25 am

Arggg! my beautiful tri colored sage is infested with mealy bugs Evil or Very Mad

since they are in a pot at the moment I sprayed them off with the hose two days in a row. Do any of you know a good organic control? Needless to say the pot has been moved well away from the rest of the garden.

dizzygardener 4/8/2011, 9:50 am

I haven't encountered mealy bugs, but I just looked in my Master Gardner manual. As far as organic control it recommends frequent application of insecticidal soap or neem oil. You have to keep re-applying it until the population declines to a tolerable level.

shannon1 4/9/2011, 12:33 am

Thanks I am happy to say I did not see any this morning but I will keep looking

**sanderson** 8/11/2021, 10:50 pm

Not only did I have aphids, spider mites, white flies and grasshoppers ruin much of the garden, now I have mealy bugs/scale on the peppers.

I've sprayed twice with spinosad, but it doesn't seem to be working. I'm going to try Dr. Bronner's next. tongue

OhioGardener 8/12/2021, 8:27 am

That's a mess of mealybugs! The only control I have found for them is either Neem Oil or using a cotton swab soaked in alcohol to wipe them off.

**sanderson** 8/12/2021, 3:17 pm

I just finished wiping infected areas with rubbing alcohol. The infestation was far worse than I thought. Tonight is Neem oil. I don't suppose you have sprayed peppers with rubbing alcohol by any chance? Laughing

OhioGardener 8/12/2021, 6:30 pm

sanderson wrote: I don't suppose you have sprayed peppers with rubbing alcohol by any chance?

No, never tried that. Alcohol evaporates so fast that I never thought of spraying insects with it.

**sanderson** 8/14/2021, 9:33 pm

I wiped the big clumps off using rubbing alcohol. Then, last night I misted stems and leaves with a bottle to catch isolated patches. Wow, the pepper plants came through nicely!!

OhioGardener 8/15/2021, 8:29 am

sanderson wrote:I wiped the big clumps off using rubbing alcohol. Then, last night I misted stems and leaves with a bottle to catch isolated patches. Wow, the pepper plants came through nicely!!

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has55 8/16/2021, 4:57 am

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Yardslave 8/17/2021, 4:35 pm

I use neem oil, spray , then spray again 5-7 days later.

**sanderson** 10/9/2022, 5:09 pm

This is a follow up to the mealy bug infestation in August 2021. Using a Q-tip to apply rubbing alcohol was not keeping up with the infestation. I don't know if something with more tender leaves could have survived the treatment.

8-11-21

8-18-21 I sprayed affected areas with rubbing alcohol. The leaves looked awful a few hours later.

8-25-21 A week later everything had recovered from the shock of the harsh treatment.

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