{"id":143,"date":"2020-10-03T03:07:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T03:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/merakibotanical\/?p=143"},"modified":"2020-10-13T13:53:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T13:53:55","slug":"how-to-identify-common-houseplant-pests-and-destroy-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/merakibotanical\/2020\/10\/03\/how-to-identify-common-houseplant-pests-and-destroy-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Mealybug: They&#8217;ll Suck the Life Out of Your Houseplants (Literally)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">Mealybug<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/agrinfobank.com.pk\/natural-control-mealybug\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"695\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/merakibotanical\/files\/2020\/10\/mealybug-1024x695.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/merakibotanical\/files\/2020\/10\/mealybug-1024x695.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/merakibotanical\/files\/2020\/10\/mealybug-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/merakibotanical\/files\/2020\/10\/mealybug-768x521.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/merakibotanical\/files\/2020\/10\/mealybug-560x380.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/merakibotanical\/files\/2020\/10\/mealybug.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Size: 3-4 mm long, 2 mm wide<\/li><li>Shape: Oval<\/li><li>Color: White, appear fuzzy<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Out of all the houseplant pests I will be talking about, mealybug is the one I hate the most. The only other pest I have had an experience with is scales, but that was only on on plant and it was easily managed. Mealybugs, however, don&#8217;t seem to want to leave me alone. They are very mobile pests and will go into the deepest crevices of a plant where it can&#8217;t be found. Mealybugs are very hard to get rid of if you don&#8217;t catch them right away. This is because of how fast they breed. One female can lay about 600 eggs that will hatch one week later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/scotnelson\/26169994132\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mealybug Size: 3-4 mm long, 2 mm wide Shape: Oval Color: White, appear fuzzy Out of all the houseplant pests I will be talking about, mealybug is the one I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/merakibotanical\/2020\/10\/03\/how-to-identify-common-houseplant-pests-and-destroy-them\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mealybug: They&#8217;ll Suck the Life Out of Your Houseplants (Literally)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8232,"featured_media":217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1280631,1280998],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-houseplant-pests","tag-mealybug","with-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/merakibotanical\/files\/2020\/10\/mealybug.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/merakibotanical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/merakibotanical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/merakibotanical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/merakibotanical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/merakibotanical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/merakibotanical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/merakibotanical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/merakibotanical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/merakibotanical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/merakibotanical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/merakibotanical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}