> > we have a problem with mealy bugs on our Fukien Tea... we found
> them few
> > weeks ago and since then we try to pick them up using ear buds
> soaked in
> > alcohol...
Jim said:
The soap spray should work
> over here, SAFERS makes a good soap spray.
I just had someone contact the "bonsai doctor" with a fukien tea that he had sprayed with a soap insecticide, and it had made the tree completely defoliate. So I'd test the soap first, before doing the whole tree.....
I have very good luck with pyrethrin sprays against scale insects, and I haven't seen any phytotoxicity, but I don't have a fukien tea, of course.
Nina
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