white fuzzy insect stuff on my apple trees
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Apple insect damage - got inside my bag
Comments (28)Thanks Glenn and Carla. I'll look for the messages Glenn mentioned (about not bagging too early and about different ways to attach the baggies). It was good to hear that you have a lot of good fruit thanks to the baggies, Glenn. The idea for perhaps starting to spray now was twofold: a) To kill earwigs which continue to enter some of the baggies of the apples & pears that haven't been harmed by CM or PC. b) To try to help next year's crop. From your replies, it sounds like spraying now won't help next year. It is possible that some of the fruit had been invaded before I bagged. My trees have very little fruit this year due to a spring freeze. The largest and oldest tree sprouted about 6 apples; the smaller apple tree had about 10. The new pear trees had about a dozen each. How do I get the forum to send email notification of replies to this thread? I've done it with threads I started but don't see a way to do it with this thread. Thanks! Laurie...See MoreAmelianchier tree has curled leaf with fuzzy white stuff
Comments (1)Maybe try blasting them with water....See MoreFast, fuzzy, flying, white insect?
Comments (4)Sounds like whitefly. NOT beneficial. But spraying around with pesticide won't really help you with them. In fact, use of broad-spectrum pesticides encourages them. You can set up sticky bright yellow things, which they will be drawn to. You can hose-wash. Oil sprays UNDER leaves will smother them. Hummingbirds love to eat them. Roses generally speaking do not host them. You will find their nests -- like strange white "mazes" on the underside of the leaves of host plants. Citrus trees, plumeria, begonias, fuchsias, geraniums, hibiscus, and brugmansias are some of the plants we have seen them colonize. You want to eliminate those nests, either with oil sprays, or just rubbing them away with your fingers. Jeri...See MoreWhat's this white stuff on my new trees leafs?
Comments (23)Mealy bug usually proliferates in leaf axils. From there, they can go on to colonize all over the plant, but we should be seeing "mother colonies" in the leaf and branchlet axils. What's more-and I started dealing with mealy bug as a greenhouse pest in the 1970s-mealy bug is almost always soft and squishy. The fact this is in Cali does suggest that it is at least possible this could be that insect group-mealy bugs are not found in the outdoors except in year-round warm areas-but the hardness or crustiness suggest this is something else. I still think it's bird poop. +oM...See Moreapplenut_gw
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