Stickfigure Gardening with Leonardo de Stickfigure

Stickfigure Gardening with Leonardo de Stickfigure
The Stickfigure Family

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Update on Poinsettia Rescue

3rd & 4th instar nymphs 
Well, the concoction I made up the other day is not working.  Today I saw a white fly emerge from the poinsettia plant as I tapped it.  I decided to put one of the leaves under a microscope at 100X and sure 'nuff there they were...about 6 nymphs on the leaves.  I could not find any eggs which gives me hope.
 Lady Stickfigure banished the plant from the house and my reply could only be, "Yes, your Linesse."  I promptly curtsied and left with a pitiful looking poinsettia out to the patio.  Its fate is hanging on the edge of doom.

At right is a drawing I made of the little creatures.  I compared them with some online pics and they look pretty close.

That plant sat out on the patio all summer last year and really took off.  But when I brought it into the house the flies went to work unopposed.  I figure they must have been prayed upon outside to such an extent that they could not do much damage.

I gave it another dose of the pepper/soap concoction and left the plant outside to see what happens.

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