GREAT link - info re: mealybugs

Stumbled across this (my ascot was tied too tightly!!) website and thought it interesting!!!

http://mrec.ifas.ufl.edu/LSO/Mealybugs.htm

Thanks Carol!!

Absolutely fascinating, despite the chills now running up and down my spine .... shudder.....

Christine

yeah, I feel kind of itchy too...

what is meant by infestation occuring inside "vegatative shoot apex" being difficult to detect? Exactly what is a veg. shoot apex? I think the mealies I have seen around here have been the pink hibiscus type. Real nice that some types can produce without fertilization.

Ish......

Imagine, Jen, a new shoot on a plant, not necessarily a hoya. This shoot has a closed up new leaf reading to 'unfurl'... Dey b inside dat!