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What is infecting my tree?
« on: October 09, 2018, 11:06:36 PM »
This is on a satsuma Mandarin tree, about 6 years old




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Re: What is infecting my tree?
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2018, 06:07:03 AM »
Citrus whitefly (Dialeurodes citri).

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Re: What is infecting my tree?
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2018, 12:35:13 PM »
That doesn't look like white fly infestation that I have had. Looks more like a fungus or scale.


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Re: What is infecting my tree?
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2018, 01:09:53 PM »
I noticed a similar looking white fuzz on my trees after spraying for scale.  It looks to be a fungus growing on the cottony-cusion-scale corpses.  Mine isn't in thick patches like yours, though, not sure if its the same.

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Re: What is infecting my tree?
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2018, 04:18:37 PM »
So we arent certain of what it is?

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Re: What is infecting my tree?
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2018, 05:39:05 AM »
I am not sure it is Dialeurodes citri because there are hundreds of species, but I am sure it is a whitefly.
Did you search for photos of white fly?
You will see the woolly colonies.
Shake your plant and tell us what happens.  ;D

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Re: What is infecting my tree?
« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2018, 07:58:41 AM »
Check out pictures of wooly aphids. Closest thing I can find.


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