Texas Gardening: Cotton Scale, 1 by ceejaytown

ceejaytown wrote:
Imidacloprid - Bayer Advanced Tree & Shrub Insect Control (systemic and doesn't impact beneficials that might be feeding on the mealybugs - like the mealybug destroyer....) would be my first choice. Second choice - Oil (Ultra fine) - summer spray. Be careful with the high temperatures. Can burn the leaves of plants. This will kill the beneficials too. Then we get into the "heavy" stuff - like Orthene, Isotox, Sevin, that I hate to use because they kill everything.

The fuzzy guy to the left is the larval stage of a ladybug, and is called a mealybug destroyer, because it eats mealybugs (and aphids and some scale).