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Martin Brown writes:
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| I bought an insecticidal soap and have been using the spray once a
| week on the plants, but the mealybugs still keep coming back.
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| Not a chance. You just get cleaner mealy bugs.

Not at all - it works like a dream, on any that you can see.

The mistake is to use it as a contact insecticide - you need to
blast the wool off them using a hand spray as a miniature power
washer. They then dry up and die. If you just wet them, then
the effect is as you describe.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.