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Yeah... Bayer 3-in-1 or Doctor Dead Bug or whatever...??? Thanks!

Nasty buggers. I'd go 3-in-1 and Captain Jack's, alternating every week. Continue to treat for two weeks even after the bugs are gone.

Can you submerge the plant in a bucket of water? I don't think captain jack's spinosad works on aphids, and i think that 'dews are sensitive to 3-in-1.

I've been blasting my capes with 3-in-1. They slow down a bit, but aren't any worse for the wear. Spinosad does work on aphids https://www.flgardening.com/will-spinosad-kill-aphids/ Drowning them would also work.

Captain Jack's was the one I couldn't remember. I think I've got both here...so what if I'm a bug-Armageddon "prepper".

These pictures are of a threadleaf (a Florida Red of some flower color, I think) and a rosetted species of some kind in the far corner of the pot. The pot is a small 2-1/2" square one so it wouldn't be a problem to drown them. This was a pot that set around, caught a few seeds, and seedlings popped up. It was one of those odd pots that sat outside in the summer heat, etc., got shoved around, and was basically just tolerated because it had some volunteers in it. I brought them all in for the winter this year and this pot got water but not much attention. *Then* I thought the threadleaf had started going dormant, but then one day I noticed it had a "frosty look" about it...and I looked closer!

Like I said, the pot in the photos isn't a "biggie". BUT, I had four larger pots of capes (Grandpa Stump, an Alba, a Red, and a plantlet from the Red) growing right beside it. The capes had moved down from Atlanta, they said something about the traffic being too bad there. ( Panman) Anyhow, I got to looking at them and I see an infestation in them, too,...though a lot less of an infestation, thank goodness!

I moved the mongrel pot to the other COLD end of the trailer, well away from other plants. If it makes it, it makes it, though I will go ahead and submerge the pot for a week?....2 weeks?(drowning those sapsuckers just seems "so right"! And maybe give it a pre-emptive bi-weekly bug-juice spraying for a month or so.

As for the capes, though, I think I'll try the weekly alternating treatment of 3-in-1 and Cap Jack's. Does this sound about right...lightly mist the leaves, spray the crown of the plant, and finally cover the surface area of the grow mix...? Thanks for the feedback, I just want to stop these suckers before they spread anymore and also to keep the capes from getting worse.

You can always do that needle thing.

Qtip soaked in alcohol will also work and may be more satisfying.

Now that's a thought! It might save some misses and possible plant piercings. How well do capes handle alcohol? Better than the 3-in-1 and Capt Jacks?

No idea. I've never done it.

I bet if you used some high test alcohol and threw a match down right afterwards it'd get rid of those sapsuckers! Nah, probably would burn the trailer down...I'll stick with using a needle for a javelin.

Btw, Panman, you remember the old cape that you sent with the others (I refer to it as "Grandpa Stump")...you weren't sure of it's exact identification? Looking at it and looking at my "Wide Leaf" they look very similar to one another. Grandpa Stump's leaves *may* even be a touch wider.

Those mites sounded good until the “At more than a dollar per mite…”. I think I’ll go sharpen a couple of needles (just call me “OCD-Me the Miser”

I may use these this summer