2007-09-26 03:41:12 · 7 answers · asked by Misti 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Get a bottle of rubbing alcohol and a few cotton swabs. Dip the swabs in the alcohol, and then dab it on the bugs. The little stinkers will be dead in pretty short order.
To prevent an infestation, I'd suggest using a good systeming insecticide; it's sort of like IV medication for plants. The plant takes it up via the roots (I like the kind that you can dig into the soil), and the plant is effectively poisonous to the bugs that try to eat it. Of course, this is only for plants that YOU won't be eating :-)
Good luck!
2007-09-26 03:58:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
If it's warm where you are just put the plant outside in a shady position. I find outside the mealy bugs are no match for predators, inside they are nearly impossible to remove. They get down in the soil as well as the leaves that's why a systemic poison is being recommended.
2007-09-26 16:44:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay, I'm setting myself up, because I'm not in this question to 'win', but what's up with all the thumbs down?
Dances, Onapizzadiet, and Reynwater are absolutely right. Rubbing alcohol is the best, most organic, home remedy that's available. The mealybug 'coating', or shell protects it from most insecticides, including soapy water. Crushing the insects is also a solution.
I just wanted to put my two cents in, before you get steered in the wrong direction by the thumbs down.
If you check, I'm not always on the same page with Dances or Reynwater... but again they're right. I don't know 'Ona...', but same is true. Right is right.
Good luck
2007-09-26 15:30:03 · answer #3 · answered by Kevin C 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rinse the plant in soapy water.
2007-09-26 10:49:58 · answer #4 · answered by philosophyangel 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A little dish soap in a spray bottle of water does the trick.
2007-09-26 12:16:31 · answer #5 · answered by professor grey 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
hard to get rid of a pesticdes just wash off them, try a cotton bud with alcohol or paraffin or a systemic pesticide. most these give about a months protection
2007-09-26 11:42:45 · answer #6 · answered by onapizzadiet 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Dances is correct. A good systemic insecticide is "Disyston".
2007-09-26 13:15:36 · answer #7 · answered by reynwater 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋