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Pests on my Golden Cane Palm Brisbane QLD
Can anyone help me ID this pest & recommend suitable treatment.
I have tried to use google, but have not been able to find anything. This is really a crude description; the pest looks line those barnacles you get on rocks at the beach. They are only 2-3 mm diameter and 1-2mm high, shaped like a shell and are 'suckered' onto the leaves of my Golden Cane palms. They are coloured grey, with a rough textured look on the outside. There are hundreds of them throughout the clump. Thanks for any help in identifying this pest. |
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Does it look/sound like scale?
http://www.pacsoa.org.au/palms/Articles/pests.html http://www.deh.gov.au/coasts/mpa/cor...ges/image4.jpg Liz "knll" wrote in message om... Can anyone help me ID this pest & recommend suitable treatment. I have tried to use google, but have not been able to find anything. This is really a crude description; the pest looks line those barnacles you get on rocks at the beach. They are only 2-3 mm diameter and 1-2mm high, shaped like a shell and are 'suckered' onto the leaves of my Golden Cane palms. They are coloured grey, with a rough textured look on the outside. There are hundreds of them throughout the clump. Thanks for any help in identifying this pest. |
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g'day knll,
sounds like scale to me, look for ants they have a symbiotic relationship, there is a homemade white oil recipe on my remedies page or use clear white oils at app' 25% recommended rate, liberally spray infected areas, after the heat of the sun if the plants are in the garden if they are in pots keep them out of direct sun until treatment is complete. followup spraying may be needed, aldo you can cut off all infested fronds to help treatment the palms will survive. len snipped -- happy gardening 'it works for me it could work for you,' "in the end ya' gotta do what ya' gotta do" but consider others and the environment http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gardenlen1/ my e/mail addies have spam filters you should know what to delete before you send. |
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"Staycalm" wrote in message . au...
Does it look/sound like scale? http://www.pacsoa.org.au/palms/Articles/pests.html http://www.deh.gov.au/coasts/mpa/cor...ges/image4.jpg Liz Yes, it is scale. Thanks for that. I was a bit lost trying to find it on the internet when I didn't even know what to call it. My searches turned up so many blind leads. Anyway, Time to head down to shops and getting that 'maldison' or 'dimethoate' to treat my palms. |
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len gardener wrote in message . ..
sounds like scale to me, look for ants they have a symbiotic relationship, there is a homemade white oil recipe on my remedies page or use clear white oils at app' 25% recommended rate, liberally spray infected areas, after the heat of the sun if the plants are in the garden if they are in pots keep them out of direct sun until treatment is complete. followup spraying may be needed, aldo you can cut off all infested fronds to help treatment the palms will survive. Good website len, I'll have a bit of reading to do. I will try your recipe before I get the other stuff. There are quite a few natives in my garden, despite it being in inner city Brisbane, that I would hesitate to throw too much chemicals around. |
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exactly john,
especially palms and ferns very sensative to white oil burn, but i always recomment 25% the recommended rate and applied after the heat of the sun, and with palms and ferns the new un-infested fronds soon replace the damaged ones, the only other option destroy the plant. len snipped -- happy gardening 'it works for me it could work for you,' "in the end ya' gotta do what ya' gotta do" but consider others and the environment http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gardenlen1/ my e/mail addies have spam filters you should know what to delete before you send. |
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John Savage wrote in message news:041002000095304.02Oct04$rookswood@suburbian. com...
Too many people come to grief with white oil for it to be applied without an initial test application, IMHO. I'm not sure of the exact mechanism, but it seems that the oil makes the leaves become very sensitive to sunlight. Then should the plant be exposed to strong sun during this vulnerable period, it may experience massive leaf drop. Whoah... My palms are in direct sunlight morning till mid afternoon. Lucky I had not sprayed them yet. Thanks for the tip. |
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i've always applied white oil after the heat of the sun so that by the
next day when the sun comes around again the product is not so volatile and damage is very much reduced or minimal to say the least. but in the end the pests have to be controlled and unless you are going to cut off all the fronds then pick off all the bugs that appear what else is there? the plant will recover from any damage from treatment it may not recover from the bugs if left unchecked. oh and if it is scale look for ants you will need to move them on as well if you want treatment to be permanent. len snipped -- happy gardening 'it works for me it could work for you,' "in the end ya' gotta do what ya' gotta do" but consider others and the environment http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gardenlen1/ my e/mail addies have spam filters you should know what to delete before you send. |
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len gardener wrote in message . ..
oh and if it is scale look for ants you will need to move them on as well if you want treatment to be permanent. No, there are no presence of ants, but there are some other pests such as grasshoppers and a green caterpilla. They are doing more damage to the palms though, eating away at the frond leaves. Is your white oil also an effective remedy for these, or should I just pick them off / spray them with some insecticide? Thanks. |
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grass hoopers and caterpillas are another thing but my experience is
you don't have scale without ants even out here in the bush. for me i used to pick the hoppers etc.,. of and kill them. snipped -- happy gardening 'it works for me it could work for you,' "in the end ya' gotta do what ya' gotta do" but consider others and the environment http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gardenlen1/ my e/mail addies have spam filters you should know what to delete before you send. |
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