01-08-2012, 01:33 PM
Thanks for the site info, Carey. It was very helpful.
I'm wondering now if I have a little bit of a mite problem PLUS a fungal problem. I do have webbing on the leaves - altho not nearly as dense as that shown on the site there, but definitely webbing. On closer look with a magnifier, I can see the little buggers on there moving around, teeny tiny guys I can't magnify more to see well, sorta gray colored -- so they could be the mites the site shows closeup. I also see little teeny white flying buggers around the plants. Not many, just a few - these fly like white flies, but they are far smaller than any white fly I'm used to from the mainland. They fly up from the grass that's growing in front of the plants and sometimes I see them down in the compost the plants are planted in. All that, plus rust spots as described in the guy's fungus section - that was the red dots I mentioned - definitely light in center and rusty around edges, w/the rust color on some leaves' edges. The brown dots I mentioned are really more like black I think, raised, and fall off if you touch them. There's also little bits of white here and there.
SO - what to use? I also sprayed with insecticidal soap - but it actually seems worse since I did so. It's so frustrating to me bc I've always grown bougainvillea in Calif. with very little maintenance. Thanks again for your help.
None of the photos I've seen online of gall look like what I'm seeing btw.
I'm wondering now if I have a little bit of a mite problem PLUS a fungal problem. I do have webbing on the leaves - altho not nearly as dense as that shown on the site there, but definitely webbing. On closer look with a magnifier, I can see the little buggers on there moving around, teeny tiny guys I can't magnify more to see well, sorta gray colored -- so they could be the mites the site shows closeup. I also see little teeny white flying buggers around the plants. Not many, just a few - these fly like white flies, but they are far smaller than any white fly I'm used to from the mainland. They fly up from the grass that's growing in front of the plants and sometimes I see them down in the compost the plants are planted in. All that, plus rust spots as described in the guy's fungus section - that was the red dots I mentioned - definitely light in center and rusty around edges, w/the rust color on some leaves' edges. The brown dots I mentioned are really more like black I think, raised, and fall off if you touch them. There's also little bits of white here and there.
SO - what to use? I also sprayed with insecticidal soap - but it actually seems worse since I did so. It's so frustrating to me bc I've always grown bougainvillea in Calif. with very little maintenance. Thanks again for your help.
None of the photos I've seen online of gall look like what I'm seeing btw.