RE: Re: TBs: Cult: New pest

 
Thank you, Janet for the web site about scale.  After reading it, I see
that I misnamed my pests.  They really must be mealy bugs.  Their eggs
are laid on the outside of the fans and are covered with a cottony
material.  The bugs themselves are pink since their white cottony coats
are worn off inside the leaves.  Anyway I'm fighting it until I get rid
of it, and I'm fighting the ants that distribute it.
Thanks again,
Francelle
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Janet Stromborg [t*@earthlink.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 7:29 AM
To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: TBs: Cult: New pest
 
Francelle,

I fight a continuous battle against scale on my indoor orchid
collection, though I've never seen them on my iris.  They are very hard
to eradicate as they can find numerous places to hide to avoid contact
with anything we might use to kill them. At best, I hope to manage them
to a point where I only see an occasional one.  I believe the white
sticky residue you refer to is the cottony covering of the males.  Here
is a web site with some formulas for managing them without the use of
hard pesticides.

http://nat_hist.sdstate.edu/orchids/pests/scales.htm

Janet in Denmark WI
zone 4
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: FRANCELLE EDWARDS 

  Hello, Iris-talkers,

  This year I have discovered a new parasitic pest in my irises.  It is
some kind of scale.  


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