Oh, Giselle. Try to lighten up a bit. Get that giant mealy bug out of your
posterior!! Or were you bitten by a dyspeptic spider mite?

Yeah sure that mealy covering is really effective camouflage, isn't it. If
it wasn't for that, you wouldn't have noticed the little bugger. More likely
it is intended to make them less appetizing to predators.

The alcohol; trick doesn't work very well. Its best to kill them with a real
insecticide.


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"Cereus-validus." wrote in message
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What webbing?

Aren't mealy bugs covered in a white cottony camouflage? THAT "webbing".
If you touch it with a Q-tip dipped in alcohol, the webbing/cotton
disappears and you see the bug inside.

You must be confusing Mealies with spider mites.

No, I'm not.

They are not the same at all.

You don't say?

You shouldn't be huffing "head and shoulders".
That stuff will rot your brain.

Was that an attempt at humor?

Giselle (oh)