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 <yazdypa...@gmail.com> 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 <pankajoud...@gmail.com>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 <drneilsoa...@yahoo.com>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 <yazdypa...@gmail.com>* wrote: >>> >>> >>> From: Yazdy Palia <yazdypa...@gmail.com> >>> Subject: [efloraofindia:41102] ID of the plant >>> To: "indiantreepix" <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> >>> 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/ >>> >>> >>> >> >
