They looks like meally bugs, but I am not sure how to get rid of them. I tried safer insecticide and coffee grinds and they are still worsening. PLEASE HELP before my other plants become infected.

You also might want to get a spray bottle and fill it with warm water and soap. That works pretty well to keep things under control.

Good luck!

Too bad I cant cut all the leaves off my coconut. So far I have been treating it for scale once a week. Its keeping them in control, but I must be missing some because they keep on GROWING in number! The rubbing alcohol kills them all on contact, but you really need to get them all for it to be effecive.

Its a fustrating fight. I found out ants keep re-innoculating scale on my citris because the feed off of the scale. I regiliously removed scale and did use plant sprays. That ws three years ago and no more ants or scale on the same plants.

Good Luck!!!

Laura in VB

Take Care..

Laura in VB

I had an infestation of really large, juicy scales on my ornamental peach trees last year. I used this on those, and about 3 weeks later, I could go out there and shake the branch and have dead scales fall off like snow.

I also use this stuff on all of my houseplants every year, once in the spring when they go out, once in the fall when they come in. Keeps all of the various things at bay. Used to have whitefly and aphid problems on some things, especially my hibiscus. No longer. I only wish mites were affected by this product, but they aren't.

However, if your pindo is outside, this product won't really work until next spring, because the plant probably isn't physiologically active enough to take it up through the roots. You might want to use a more conventional treatment as suggested above, then use this stuff next spring once the weather begins to warm (when the daffodils bloom).

I heard about the shrub stuff being really effective. However, using a product that kills bugs by taking pesticide up into the plant via roots would make me not want to eat the peaches from that plant. They would contain the product.

I would only use it on non fruiting or non herbal-use plants.

The stuff works really well, though. Would be good for your pindo. Once again, if you were somplace in the south where it would fruit, and you wanted to eat the fruit (I've heard it makes great jelly), woulnd't want to use this product.

Don't know if this has any relevance to the Pindo ripening in cooler zones or not.

If you would like to try some Pindo Jelly, give me a shout via my email....I'll be more than happy to send you some!!!

Greg....I've seen Pindos here in VB fruiting in October..and starting as early (Ripe fruit) in July...so it seems that they continue to bare fruit for a while!!!

I checked my oil that I use only on my windmills and Sabals for scale...The only bottle that I have left is Volck oil. But I checked the ingredients and I couldn't find anything listed with copper...It must have been another brand that I had used...Volck did have Palm trees listed with the other plants...but they didn't have them listed specifically....So I hope this helps!!!

Take Care Everyone!!!

Laura in VB

Then I used namebrand Safer spray for meally bugs and scale etc.. directly on infected area and the bud/new spears. Then spray the whole plant. Just a health note, wash up well after using the sprays. Repeat if needed 7-14 days later. If they re-appear, then remove them by hand with a q-tip dipped in alchol and repeat spray. That will work.