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Sat, Dec 18, 10 at 4:39
| I got some Spanish Moss (Tillandsia usneoides) and I later realized it was infested with Spanish Moss Orthezid (Orthezia tillandsiae) which is a soft body scale bug pest.
How do you kill it without harming the Spanish Moss?
Here is a picture of it:
Another image (not mine):
Aay help would be very appreciated. |
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| treeguy, You could try Rob Smythe's Canola Oil recipee below: I have used it with great success to kill fly speck scale on Neos, Aechmeas and Billbergias - I would do a test run on a little piece of your spanish moss first though. Rick |
Here is a link that might be useful: FCBS Canola White Oil
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- Posted by treeguy123 7a (My Page) on Sun, Dec 19, 10 at 10:38
| Thanks, I'll look at that site. I also found a page that tells how to kill scale insect pests of Bromeliads: http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/frank/bromeliadbiota/scalecontrol.htm The site saids: "it appears that most Tillandsia can support small populations of Orthezia tillandsiae without too much of an effect on the host plant." But mine looks like a large population. So I might just keep this clump in a garbage bag (and selectively pull out thin strings of it to place on a tree after checking it first each time) and if I ever buy an insecticide etc. to kill all the scales, I'll do that. (I would hate for it to spread to any other non-infested clumps of it nearby.) |
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| Unless SM is hard for you to get I'd simply bag it and throw it away. Start fresh with new plants. The same goes for T. recurvata. |
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