Gardening questions - odd white substance in underside of leaves

[rtfoe]

Can it be an albino Chewbaca?

Cheers,
Richard

[adt70hk]

One for John I think, but it looks like a fungal infection to me…..

Think it might be white fly. The cotton wool like bits are where the eggs are, the little yellow-brown bits.

I'd say white fly too

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It too suggest white fly/mealybugs

I dunno Andrew, could be Triffids............I wouldn't go to sleep tonight Buddy......................

Mealybugs...my wife's hated enemy. She goes into a fit and washes the leaves while emptying a whole can of insecticide. :smiling2: Possibly white flies.

Cheers,
Richard

Just scrape them into a bowl, add salt and pepper to taste and wash down with a fine Chianti.........:relieved:
Cheers
Mike

Hi Andrew, yes white fly and by the looks of it that white cotton wool is egg area. This is the best thing. Easily cleared up , if your prepared to spray under each leaf. Also worth dosing the soil around the shrub, you could spray any plants near as well .

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I wouldn't say whitefly, that's woolly aphid. The Provado suggested by John will get rid of them though.
Pete

A woolly aphid. Sounds quite a cute little critter. I kinda imagine a cross between a squirrel and koala bear :smiling:

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Yes definitely woolly aphid.

Spot on Mark :smiling: :thumb2:

Thanks all to the comments.....both sensible and humorous, they did make me laugh!!

It turns out we may have a Moderator in the making in my wife. I showed her the comments and having laughed she then said "Just answer the question" i.e. stick to the point!

Seriously though thanks for the info.

ATB

Andrew