Okay. I’m still fighting mealie bugs, and the last straw was finding them on a couple Lithops. I had to toss out a really cool Mammillaria elongata monstrose something something because it sat too long in water (my bad). I saved a couple of pieces to propagate, didn’t do it, and missed one little chunk that fell behind another plant. That little chunk was all the bugs needed, and then they moved on to consuming the discarded Lithops leaves. And I went almost feral over the idea of tossing out these particular Lithops, which have EVOLVED over a year. So I had to do a LOT of surgery and removal of old leaves on plants who still needed another few weeks or something. But that is speculation due to the insane splits of two faces becoming three, or maybe that’s going to be six next year. Frustrating and amazing.
