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bonsaiTALK Neophyte
Join Date: Oct-2007
Posts: 4
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Help! F-Tea has tennants.
Hello all. First time poster but long time reader.
My problem. I have an F-Tea that started dropping leaves two weeks ago. I have had this tree for over a year and it has never done this before. While removing dead leaves I noticed an ant on a limb. I removed it and continued to remove leaves. More leaves dropped over the past week but I didnt notice any new ants but white dots appeared on some of the underside of some of leaves. It continued to get worse and today I noticed another ant. I followed it and it went inside my tree! Using tweasers I found out that ants had borrowed into a spot where a limb had been removed. I found 3 ants inside. 2 small ones and 1 large one. These have been removed but there are little white dots on the leaves. After searching the web I found out that these might be alive. So I got out a mag lense and sure enough several of these dots were moving. I really am new to Bonsai and would not want to ruin my tree. Are there any suggestions on how to keep the ants away and help with removing the small white bugs?
Thanks in advance.
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