How to get rid of scale insects on indoor plants at home

Scale insects is the most dangerous parasite that is detrimental to a variety of potted plants. If time does not detect the pest, the plant may die.

How to recognize the parasite?

Jose scale is a dense mound on the leaves, feeding on the juices of the plant. Sizes up to 5 mm. Jose scale is covered with a brown shell and completely motionless in his place.

Oviposition leaves on leaves and stems of plants. The first few days the larvae are active enough, then attached to the leaves of plants as adults, and as they grow they moult occurs, thereby forming a shield.

symptoms

Determine the scale insects is possible in three areas:

• The plant begins to dry up and cease to grow.
• On the plant appear sticky plaque drops, gradually covering the entire plant them.
• On leaves and stems of the plants begin to appear plaque light brown.

Where does Jose scale?

Flower room suddenly fell ill, but where there was a pest? The reasons may be as follows:

• Young larvae can get into the house through the open windows.
• Newfound plant could be infected. Therefore, all the new flowers need the original perederzhivat quarantined.
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• Either new soil could be larvae or eggs scale insects.

Measures to combat the pest

Once it became clear that the plant is subject to attack the parasite is necessary to start taking measures to deal with it and complete its removal.

The whole procedure can be done in three basic steps:

• Covering the soil film, the whole plant, the stems, and the leaves on both sides, carefully processed cotton pad with well-concentrated solution of the usual soap.

• The next stage will again rub plants with a solution, but the brush. After remaining can be removed with tweezers pest.
• In the end, with the plants to wash off the soap residue, for example by placing the pot in the bathroom, under running water.

To prevent reinfestation, all the processing procedure must be repeated every week for a month.

Unfortunately, the numerous defeats, the above method may not help. In this case it is necessary to resort to chemical or folk remedies.

The most effective chemicals from scale insects are juvenoids and hormonal insecticides, organophosphate neoniktinoidy or drugs.

Instructions to drugs suggest how to properly handle the plant. To prevent re-flash is also worth to do the procedure again in a few days.

In a folk remedy can be soap with an alcohol or with a lubricating oil, wood ash, acetic or pepper solution.

But this method can be inefficient, so it is best to resort to chemical means.

Treatment is always a lengthy process, so to prevent injury should carry out regular inspections of the plant.