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What are these insect husks on my lime tree?
zugenie
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Overwintering my lime had been going well until I noticed it start to drop leaves, I checked it over and spotted some sap sucking insects (small and white) so took it outside to spray it, at which point I found a couple of scale insects and several of these:
What are they from and do I need to worry about them potentially being in my house now? (I can’t wait to have a greenhouse for overwintering!!)
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
if anyone is interested I asked the nursery I got the lime tree from (citrus centre) and they’ve said it’s most likely from brown apple moths, which would explain the moths I kept seeing in the house not long after we moved
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It tickled me that the eggs must have been laid at our old house then hatched 80 odd miles away after we’d moved!