1. What is a mealybug?

Mealybugs are very small, soft-bodied pests that are only about 1/8 of an inch in length as an adult. They come in a variety of colors: blue, white, yellow, red, brown and black. Mealybugs can be found in swarms, often clinging to the stems and under the leaves.
Mealybugs parasitize and damage many crops, the most serious being citrus fruits (oranges, tangerines, grapefruit, …) and vegetables. Besides, they also damage more than 70 different crops causing great damage to farmers. They suck the sap, causing parts of the plant to gradually wilt, yellow and stunt.

2. How to identify plants that are damaged by mealybugs?

– On the stems and leaves of plants appear tiny white spots like mold with white silk
– The top of the tree is stunted and curled. If you look closely, you will see green mealybugs.
– Seeing that ants appear a lot on plants, because ants are symbiotic with mealybugs to suck the sweet nectar released by mealybugs.

3. How to kill mealybugs with natural methods, easy to do at home

• Step 1: Prepare a solution to kill mealybugs
  Ingredient:
  – 1 liter of clean water
  – 10 ml of dishwashing liquid (soap)
  – 0.5 liters of 70% Isopropyl alcohol
  – Pour the mixture into a spray bottle, shake them to dissolve. If you have essential oils at home, add a few drops to the solution to speed up the process of killing mealybugs and help prevent mealybugs from returning to attack the plants.
• Step 2: Choose the time to kill mealybugs
  – The most effective time frame to kill mealybugs is in the sun from 9 to 10 hours. At this time, it is sunny, the temperature is high, and the drying time will make the drug most effective.

• Step 3: Apply insecticide to kill mealybugs
  – Spray directly on the stem, two sides of the leaves of plants infected with mealybugs. In addition, spray around the cultivation place with a radius of about 1 meter to destroy all aphids that are about to grow and attack the plants again.
  After a few hours when the plants have dried, use clean water to rinse them to clean the mealybugs and drugs on the plants.
  To completely destroy mealybugs, sprays should be applied 2-3 times a week to plants.

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Above is a way to kill mealybugs that damage plants by natural methods that are extremely effective, easy to prepare and safe ingredients that are not harmful to human health. Wish you have healthy and lush plants.