Q We moved three years ago, and shortly after we moved most of my house plants developed what I thought at first was a fungus. It was a sticky, white, fuzzy substance in little blobs and splotches all over the stems and leaves. It killed all my violets before I found out it was mealybugs. I bought a few kinds of sprays, all guaranteed to get rid of mealybugs, but they just kept coming back. I lost a 30-year-old rope hoya, several other kinds of hoya, a red Dracaena and others. The only plants left are a couple of peace lilies and a palm and while there are some signs of the bugs, they seem mostly healthy. Read More
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One of 2023’s most extreme heatwaves is happening in the middle of winter
Temperature anomaly on Wednesday August 2 2023. Red areas of Chile and northern Argentina are much hotter than the long-term average for this time of…

