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persimilis on to your plants. Alternatively, use sprays containing, fatty acids or plant oils.houseplants, greenhouse plants, also outdoors on fuchsias, runner beans, busy lizzies, grape vinesall year roundMore common garden pestsMealybugsScale insectsWhiteflyThrips

(causing no damage) to be taken up by the sap-sucking whiteflies.tomatoes, cucumbers, fuchsias, other greenhouse plantsspring, summer, autumnMore common garden pestsAphidsLeaf miner flyEuonymus scaleMealybugs

of scale insect (the most likely cause of your sooty mould) is with fingernails and soapy water. I did this with my orange tree a few years ago, which also had mealybug - it took several weeks of regularly cleaning the leaves and removing the scale insects

the ability to eat and obviously won't kill the plant. I did look online and it suggested washing up liquid in a spray bottle but I'd rather get some more advice before I try this. I think it's probably mealybugs that are a common pest with plants kept indoors

.Propagating bromeliadsIt’s rare for indoor bromeliads to suffer from pests, but occasionally they can attract mealybug, scale and red spider mites. The first two are slow-moving insects that feed on sap and often the first symptom you’ll spot is stickiness on the leaves

Kate, it is pouring with rain in Bristol and I have just dashed out and lifted everything I have in pots with lush new growth onto the picnic table out of reach of the slugs and snails who will be roaming around tonight. Being a gardener means using all your wits if you want to ...

where air movement is poor or the soil is dry can be severely affected. (found on RHS website) They could be mealy bugs. Scales are insects, related to mealybugs, that can be a problem on a wide variety of plants - indoor and outdoor. Young scales crawl

If any of you heard Kate on Gardener's Question Time last week, she gave a very brave defence of wildlife in the face of a concerted 'push' from the BBC to sell us the idea that Neonicotinoid Pesticides are 'alright if used according to manufacturers instructions'.  Kate pointed ...