This is the best photo i can get. it looks like a head and a long slender body. The smaller ones (younger i presume) seem to be more clear or not as dark. the larger larvae are darker, and much bigger in size (although still small, photo is close to largest larvae i found) Tried to give you some scale to it...hope this helps http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j132/k5pratt/bug002.jpg

Sorry, I know not to confuse by using brand names for insecticides, which are rarely used out of the US. I still can't spell imidacloprid. Or is it imadicloprid? At least I now know it isn't imaticloprid. Oh well, now none of you will be able to spell it either .( . Supposedly this stuff works but is highly water soluble. So, it must be watered in carefully. The granules aren't water soluble though. But, the insecticide washes off the granules. So, one must not be confused by seeing the granules still on the surface of the soil. I would guess that the best way to use Marathon would be to water the plant while in a flat bottomed saucer, so that all the run-off is reabsorbed. Just make sure the run-off is not accessible to pets or wildlife, if outdoors. Hopefully one doesn't have wildlife indoors. I have to admit that I have some plants that seem to be poorly treated by Marathon. I have some old nematanthus in my greenhouse that have mealies on their new growth. I keep putting in Marathon over and over. I know it is working because the pests are not taking over the plant, as they would if they could. But, at the same time they keep persisting. I wonder if it is that the plant isn't happy in its location, or the insecticide washes through and isn't absorbed enough. Or, that the plant is too large for the insecticide to fully innoculate all the growth out to the tips. Old foliage seems to be clean, its just the new tips that get bugged. I know what I have to do though. I have another insecticide that unfortunately isn't sold anymore, called Knox-out. It is encapsulated diazanon--supposedly the incapsulation makes it very safe for us mammals. When sprayed on the plant it sticks to the surface and kills the bugs when the come into contact with it. So, it sort of works like a systemic, in that it kills long after spraying. But, it wouldn't be on new growth that occurs after spraying. I will clean up a plant with Knox-out and then use Marathon to keep it clean--HOPEFULLY! Back in the good old days, people didn't have our problems. If they saw bugs they went in and sprayed with one of those super-powerful insecticides and killed everything including eventually themselves. Jon

I agree with the identification of the third palm as Florida's state "tree," a cabbage palm (Sabal palmetto), and I'll defer on the identification of your second species (queen palm?). But, I suggest you may want to consider another possibility, solitaire palm (Ptychosperma elegans) for the identity of your red-fruited first species... it's very commonly planted (even becoming a bit of an invasive weed) in south Florida. Here is a link that might be useful: Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council Lists of Invasive Plants

Hey Jinny...I don't blame you for not using peat in your mixes..I refuse to use it in many too, especially all my plants I like in the gritty..I didn't realize you said that you use the gritty mix only now, my bad...Good for you)) I think asked if it was bad to use the 'mix', 'Natures Care' with feather meal and stuff...I just wanted to encourage you to use pure 'peat' since any other additives could cause a gnat issue if you were to make a 5.1.1 again...Keep up the good job with the gritty !! If anything, everyone should use the gritty since it does not weigh as much as they think it does when wet....Believe it or not, sometimes I will make the 5.1.1 without peat substituting 'pumice' or 'surface' instead and it is awesome!!! All my Hoya thrive in this and many of my citrus.... Jersey, I bring both the gritty and 5.1.1 mix plants into the house..It must be me, but I have pots full of the gritty and the 5.1.1 and they both seem to weigh the same to me...I don't make a mix ahead of time and store it for more than a week or so...I am afraid it will decompose too much by the time I use it. I will actually soak my bark for a few days but without the peat..Then I use that damp bark and mix it with the peat and perlite as needed to keep it as fresh as possible.... I love how your tree looks in that pot and the color of that mix..Good job..By the way, I had no idea all of us had FIGS in common.. I think we are all too much alike in the plants department! I just finished picking 20 ripe Black Mission, as sweet as they could be...What kills me, is that some can have a problem in one area and some of us nothing in another..I never saw a bee go for mines...Crazy and over 27 varieties...