Help! Blooming plants covered with mealy bugs.

Cynthia
by Cynthia
The plants that fill my deck are covered with mealy bugs. The 50+ plants winter in a area greenhouse and came home infested with these white cottony pests.
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  • Douglas Hunt Douglas Hunt on Jun 24, 2013
    That sounds like far too many plants to go about swabbing the mealy bugs with rubbing alcohol. I suggest a good commercially prepared insecticidal soap.