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title: "My echeveria has been having mealybugs for a month or two I keep…"
description: "My echeveria has been having mealybugs for a month or two I keep holding them off but they keep coming back does anyone have ideas?"
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author: "Blooming Dawn"
published: "2024-10-10T21:04:39.503359Z"
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# My echeveria has been having mealybugs for a month or two I keep…

_Posted by Blooming Dawn on 2024-10-10_

My echeveria has been having mealybugs for a month or two I keep holding them off but they keep coming back does anyone have ideas?

## 4 comments

### eatyacarbs commented on 2024-10-10

all you can do is keep treating until they stop appearing — blast them off with a good spray of water next watering day

### Blooming Dawn commented on 2024-10-10

Thanks!

### GnomeChompski commented on 2024-10-13

How often are you treating for them? What are you treating them with? I've blasted plants with shower water to get what I could off and sprayed insecticidal soap. Usually about once a week. Some bad infestations require more aggressive methods such as seven spray or similar and more frequently

#### Blooming Dawn replied on 2024-10-13

What I always do is get a brush and cleansing acholol diluted with water and grab the mealybugs and I do it about 1 a week

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