{"id":1690,"date":"2021-01-30T23:12:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T04:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2021-01-30T23:12:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T04:12:37","slug":"2021-01-30-scale-infestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/2021\/2021-01-30-scale-infestation\/","title":{"rendered":"2021.01.30: Scale Infestation :("},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last year my mango got scale and I fought it all year with not too much success (horticultural oil, scrubbing with toothbrushes dipped in insecticidal soap, neem oil). I noticed this week that the scale had spread to many other plants in my greenhouse and office \ud83d\ude41 So I swung into action and applied the systematic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Compare-N-Save-Systemic-Shrub-Insect-Drench\/dp\/B00ARKS5QO\/ref=asc_df_B00ARKS5QO\/?tag=hyprod-20&amp;linkCode=df0&amp;hvadid=167152392179&amp;hvpos=&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvrand=4328806195223075784&amp;hvpone=&amp;hvptwo=&amp;hvqmt=&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvdvcmdl=&amp;hvlocint=&amp;hvlocphy=9005930&amp;hvtargid=pla-304728754253&amp;psc=1\">imidacloprid<\/a> as a soil drench. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Imidacloprid#Neonicotinoids_banned_by_the_European_Union\">Banned in the EU<\/a> for outdoor use because it is toxic to bees, I was a bit nervous. However, given it&#8217;s sub-freezing outside and I&#8217;m only applying it to indoor plants in the dead of winter and the EU ban exempts closed greenhouses, I&#8217;m hoping it won&#8217;t do too much damage to use it indoors &#8211; and hopefully stop the scale! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year my mango got scale and I fought it all year with not too much success (horticultural oil, scrubbing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-greenhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}