Thanks, Usha ji, for the wonderful post.
On 4 June 2014 12:05, Usha Desai <[email protected]> wrote: > My Dear Abhaji,Siloo,Gita > > This is not fungal infection it is mealy bug infection[quite often you get > on Jasvant[shoe flower..Hibiscus] > Infact fungal infection sometimes control mealy Bug[?] > > mealy bug is the pest on rain trees and its foe is Lady Bird Beetle > > go thr' the link to know what they are doing > > if any of you get involved,let me know what is happening > > I am sending this mail to all because Rain trees are everywhere in Mumbai > and probably 100 years old..so it affects us all... > I have not send the details of life cycles as I do not want to bore you > all.. > > Remember chemical pestcides will kill beneficiary insects which help in > biocontorll SO NO NO TO CHEMICAL PESTICDES > > Biopesticides for mealy bugs are Lady Bird Beetles and their > larvae,Lacewings,Noctuid Mths and their caterpillar,Blue Butterfly > caterpillar,Chalcid wasps.fungus. > I f you want more info contact Dr Shubhalaxmi of BNHS AND GOOGLE...LOTS OF > INFO ON NET > Love Usha > > > > http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/cover-story/Beetles-Live/articleshow/33300957.cms > [image: Inline images 1] Mealy Bug > > [image: Inline images 2] Lady Bird > Beetle > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- With regards, J.M.Garg 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> The whole world uses my Image Resource <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the world- around 2350 members & 1,90,000 messages on 31/5/14) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 9500 species & 1,90,000 images). Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

