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How to treat scale damage on Nepenthes
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How to treat scale damage on Nepenthes
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How to treat scale damage on Nepenthes

By David Fefferman|2017-04-12T07:57:01-07:00April 10th, 2017|Pests|

How do scale infestations happen? Last year, I purchased a Nepenthes talangensis x sibuyanensis at the Bay Area Carnivorous Plant Society Show and Sale (totally recommend going - it's an excellent event that falls on June 3rd, this year) and introduced it into my Nepenthes terrarium without a full [...]

How to treat thrip damage on a pitcher plant
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How to treat thrip damage on a pitcher plant
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How to treat thrip damage on a pitcher plant

By David Fefferman|2018-10-18T18:24:43-07:00February 22nd, 2017|Pests|

Thrip damaged sarracenia leaf with the little buggers circled. Thrips - the bane of pitcher plant growers, the world over. These tiny devils invade your plants, carried to them on breeze or introduced by other infested plants. Thrips have asymmetrical mouths with the right mandible being vestigial, or missing all-together, and the left mandible [...]