Dear Mr. Pankaj Oudhia ji Many thanks for the information. The explanation is given in my reply to Mr. Neil Soares ji. The ones without ants are not mealy bugs but its predators. They are normally mobile and move pretty fast. The same was explained to me by a friend working in Coffee board a few years back. I have forgotten the name but will try to locate information on it and revert back. Regards Yazdy.
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Pankaj Oudhia <[email protected]>wrote: > Agree with you as you are seeing the plant. > > Mealy bugs are still present in my garden in Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, Ixora > and Mango. Ants are common in first two species but in Mango I have not > observed ant population. Monsoon is on in Chhattisgarh. > > regards > > Pankaj Oudhia > > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Yazdy Palia <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Dear Pankaj ji, >> When there are mealy bugs, there should be plenty of ants. Moreover, mealy >> bugs appear in very dry areas and during summer. They can not survive our >> monsoon. Even if there is slight moisture in the soil, they do not thrive. >> mealy bugs have a fleshy body this thing does not. Moreover the fluffy >> matter is flying about in the air. If it is mealy bugs it can not fly about >> like that. >> Regards >> Yazdy. >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Pankaj Oudhia >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I agree with Neil ji. It looks like Mealy bug specially in picture 3122. >>> >>> regards >>> >>> Pankaj Oudhia >>> >>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Neil Soares <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Mr.Palia, >>>> My guess would be Urena lobata var.sinuata and the 'fluffy matter' are >>>> mealy bugs. >>>> With regards, >>>> Neil Soares. >>>> >>>> --- On *Mon, 7/12/10, Yazdy Palia <[email protected]>* wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> From: Yazdy Palia <[email protected]> >>>> Subject: [efloraofindia:41102] ID of the plant >>>> To: "indiantreepix" <[email protected]> >>>> Date: Monday, July 12, 2010, 10:35 PM >>>> >>>> >>>> hello friends, what is the identity of the plant and what is the >>>> identity of the fluffy matter on its stem. >>>> Regrds >>>> Yazdy. >>>> >>>> You have been sent 5 pictures. >>>> >>>> >>>> DSCN3118.JPG >>>> DSCN3119.JPG >>>> DSCN3120.JPG >>>> DSCN3121.JPG >>>> DSCN3122.JPG >>>> >>>> These pictures were sent with Picasa, from Google. >>>> Try it out here: http://picasa.google.com/ >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
