My poor lime tree. Okay, it’s really my mother in law’s lime tree – she planted it and cared for it for its first bunch of years. But in my heart, the lime tree is mine. I love limes and wish this tree would reach the point where it was mature enough to bear...
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I’ve mentioned the papaya mealybug infection in several previous posts. Unfortunately, the papaya mealy bug (Paracoccus marginatus) continues to be a problem. Spraying neem on the infected plants is one effective option, except that it turned out I’m allergic to neem oil. Severely. And I have no desire to go through that horrid hive...
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When I went downstairs to make lunch, and water the plants and such outside, I noticed a teeny tiny little froggy (about an inch and a half long) napping in my now-sparsely-vegetated lime tree. Probably got a fair bit of sun there, I’m thinking. Well, going by the glare off his back, yeah, a...
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I pruned off more of the lime tree. It has about 1/8th the foliage left. All is damaged (the entire tree was in sad shape from not just the papaya mealy bug infestation (Paracoccus marginatus), but also from other pests – I have sadly neglected it!), but not as badly as what I removed....
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