And.....she says, flashing her scaly eyelashes, so weigh me!

--
Cheers Wendy

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Gene Schurg wrote:
It's a hot humid day in the greenhouse.

The hot stud scale slides over next to the hot blob of a babe, "Hey
slimy, how about you and me make some wild passionate scale love?" "I
so love the shape of your probiscus." "Is there room under that
shell for both of us?"

Awwww....young scale love.



"Diana Kulaga" wrote in message
...
Gene, stop!

Diana G

"Gene Schurg" wrote in message
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Dianna,

After all this is "G" rated newsgroup. We can't be too graphic.

How's this "When the hot young masculine scale comes upon a sweet
curvy babe
of a scale....."

Gene



"Diana Kulaga" wrote in message
news:aHOth.780$ch1.474@bigfe9...
"When the momma scale mates with the daddy scale"........ You owe
me a keyboard, Gene!

Diana

"Gene Schurg" wrote in message
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Diana,

When the momma scale mates with the daddy scale the momma lays
eggs under her shell. At some point the momma scale dies and
protects the eggs with her shell which gets leathery and dry.
After some time the eggs hatch and a
bunch of small whitish dusty looking babies crawl out from under
the shell and look for a nice leaf to attach to. These are the
crawlers. In large quantities they could be mistaken for mealie
bugs.

Gene




"Diana Kulaga" wrote in message
...
Gene & Rob,

I have a question for both of you. Thankfully, scale is
generally not a
huge
problem for me. I see it now and then, but seldom, really. And I
have never seen anything that I could identify as crawling
scale. When I *have* had scale, it appears attached to the
plant, having sunk its wicked fangs in already. Thorough
searches have not produced anything further.

Am I missing something?

Diana

"Rob" wrote in message
...
Gene Schurg wrote:
Rob,

It is interesting that you could be observing the same thing
as I. Did
you
spray or drench with the Bayer product? Did you water between
applications
where the plants could suck up water without the chemicals?


I tried a drench (trash can and pump with hose) with just the
bayer for three consecutive weeks in early summer. That didn't
work, or at least not completely. When I added the IGR into
the mix, it was applied as
a
spray to the point of complete saturation of as much leaf
surface as possible (top and bottom), again for three
consecutive weeks, within a couple hours after watering the
greenhouse in my normal way. I'm not
sure
of the rationale of that, but I did have one. It made sense to
water
before so that I wouldn't wash out chemical before it had a
chance to
be
absorbed, and I thought that perhaps the leaves would be more
actively transpiring right after a nice watering and more
susceptible to absorbing chemical.

Distance is supposed to have translaminar systemic activity
(absorbed
through the leaves), which is one of the reasons I picked it.
I don't think EnstarII is systemic (I could be wrong). It is
about the same cost, but you have to buy a whole quart... They
target the same pathway.

And actually, come to think of it, I used orthene instead of
imidocloprid for the first two weeks. Both have systemic
activity. I was worried
that
the bugs were becoming resistant to repeated imidocloprid
treatment, and
I
hadn't used orthene in a while. This way I was hoping to get
the resistant ones in the first two passes, and get the longer
residual
of
the
imidocloprid on the last one. And orthene is cheap...
Probably a stupid idea.

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1) There is always room for one more orchid
2) There is always room for two more orchids
2a) See rule 1
3) When one has insufficient credit to obtain more
orchids, obtain more credit