What are the oval shaped, white, furry little insects I can see on my Palms/Cycads?
These are mealy bug. One of few insects, thankfully, that actually feed on palms and cycads. Mealy bug mealy bug They feed by sucking out the plant juices from the plant. Like the aphid, mealy bugs excrete a honeydew substance over plant surfaces. Sometimes a secondary fungus called black sooty mould grows on the honeydew…
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