Posted on September 8, 2010.
Have a 10' draecena infested extremely with the starchy insects. Too big to move itself outside for pulverization that can I do?Very difficult to spray since is on the floor and dripline of leafy ones is wide. The newspapers are soaked and decrease fabric in plastic is not easy to check in the living sector. Is there an effective treatment of ground? To read since the starchy insects do not put eggs in the ground, the ground treatment is not effective. Do not import that has resolved this problem?
napalm
Hmmm, unfortunately, considering your circumstances and considering the conditions, I would say that your better wager is a leaf and a stem at once. To wash every and every leaf and every stem with a soft fabric soaked in a water solution, rubbing alcohol and the detergent of soft dish. It will take a LONG time, but to the final one this will be the value it. C'est-a -dire, of course, if you want to do the things the manner eco-amical. If you has not any objections to the chemical solutions I would ask just your local nursery (evidently the nursery of plant) that chemical composite travaillera better. Since the starchy insects nourish on the plant leaves it well there can have something that can be added to the ground that finally will poison them, and their offspring.
Keep the plant cleans, cleans, cleans if the small mean creatures cannot move themselves in. In the past I had fights it with these destructive insects and won.
Suggestion:
1. The movement infested the plant far of all others plant interior to prevent the trip insects to the other hosts.
2. Big Etaler tarp in plastic on the floor. * The Grade that the plastic one of tarp is stiffer, easier to check - to add of the put to bed of new ones hide on the summit.
3. Put the plant one of these small plateformes (meant for big and heavy the plants of interior) with roulettes - this manner can roll you the plant around easily.
4. The usage of a q-pointe, a spot Alcohol of ordinary Friction on every fissure in which the Mealybugs lives. This to allow doing the work, but then to give after with a bucket heats the water of sudsy and washes out all the leaves of Dracaena, and the spot with alcohol again. Follow this routine for a week or until you cannot find recently brooded Mealybugs.
5. The this would be serviable if the plant could be reversed crosswise on the bath tub to rinse alcohol and residue of savon.
6. Soak the plant uniformly to keep the cleans and the insect liberates.
** More of Internet information. Non chemical check
The Pulverization of Alcohol of friction: The idea of usage of alcohol of friction as a pulverization for the plant plagues was about during years. Some people recommend it while of others criticize it to cause damages of leaf.
The protection offered: The people that used pulverizations of alcohol say that they treat mealybugs. Alcohol pulverizations were used with success on the plants of interior and the plants of tropical foliage. Most of these have the heavy cuticles and polishers that easily are not burned. Alcohol pulverizations can damage saintpaulias and pommiers.
How To Do: Mix 1 to 2 alcohols of cups [Uses only 70% isopropyle (rubbing) alcohol] by the liter of water. The usage non diluted alcohol as a pulverization is very risked for the plants. You can confuse also an insecticide pulverization of savon according to the dilution on the alcohol of label but substitute for the half of demanded water.
How To Use: Since alcohol can damage plants always try your pulverization mixture on some plant leaves first. If pulverization kills the plagues and no leaf damages spectacles in the next one 2 or 3 days, to forge ahead and spray more, using exactly them same ingredients and them same proportions that you tried. If a good establishes infestation, the it will be necessary to do an application collection, to 10 to 14 intervals of day, for the check of mealybug.
Oil horticole and Insecticide Savon Spray: Are of the non chemical effective checks for the starchy insects and the other plagues of soft bodied. Oil pulverizations suffocate the insects and can help in the tortoises and the eggs to the check ladder, while the pulverizations of savon cause the insects that the membranes cytoplasmique to break efficiently causing it to dessicate. A lot of types of pulverizations of oil and of pulverizations of savon are commercially available or can be done to the house. For more of information to see: The oil horticole, the Pesticides did with the botanical oils, and the Insecticide savon.
THE GOOD LUCK IN THE ENLEVEMENT OF THE Source of MEALYBUGS (the Sources) : My own experience and my additional information of Internet.
Two solutions for you - the one for the moment and the one for plant health sur-allant. ..
For the moment - instead of spraying the leaves, mix a strong solution of savon of dish (not the type for the dishwasher) and water. The usage of a soft sponge (as the type to wash a car) wipes the solution everywhere in the leaves and plant trunk.
For on going - to plant a garlic ring around the tree in the jar. This helps moves away also of the aphids on the pink outsides in the flower beds.
Good luck!