Good day Can somebody please help me identify this pest on my lemon tree? I am a rookie with lemon trees, well with gradening. I get so excited when my lemon tree gets new leaves, but not long after the leaves grows, these pest appear at the bottom of the leaves and make these leaves all curly. I spreads unbelievable quickly. I am trying to cut them out, but my poor lemon tree has only a couple of leaves left and can't even produce more than I am cutting out. Please give me some advice how to treat this pest.
wow...what have you done up to now for this??......what I do when I think I"ve got bugs is take a water spray bottle that contains a few drops of dishwashing soad and to really soak the plant ..and I also give a watering that contains a drop of soap also...I would try this a few times...
Thanks for reply, but I have tried the water and dishwashing liquid, but the bugs keeps coming back. My only resort was to cut off the affected leaves, but now my little tree does not have many leaves left. If I can just find out what this is!!! The bugs are very transluent under the leaves, and they develop into this small flying bugs.
have you tried a store bought pesticide or ?? cutting the leaves well like you say you won't have anything left
Spray with water, with a spoon of cooking oil and a spoon of neem oil, a tiny drop of dishwash liquid, it works on most, the cooking oil suffocates the pests, the neem oil stops them feeding and also suffocates them If its a suitable size, fill a bowl big enough to put the top of the tree in (not the pot) with the oil/water and scrub all the pests off the leaves with a small brush, do all the stems as well If that doesnt work, use something such as bayer `provado ultimate bug killer`, it kills most things,
Thank you Starloc and Rudell I will try the this over the weekend and hopefully it kills all the bugs.
It might be some sort of citrus psyllid? The damage reminds me of what I have seen on Syzygium paniculatum.
Some pest injuries can resemble disease symptoms, but I'm pretty sure this is caused by a bug, and probably a psyllid, or more correctly a psyllid nymph. Some psyllids, such as the one that transmits greening disease in Africa, causes a distinctive blistering and malformation of leaves. Nymphs of Trioza erytreae feed mostly on the underside of young leaves, and the leaves react by forming blisters. A corresponding depression forms on the opposite leaf surface. I would not recommend picking the leaves off the tree, as doing so completely stops the tree from producing its food. The damage has already been done. - Millet
The lower photo (on my browser) above shows leaves that may be a crinkly virus caused condition. Citrus Crinkle (generally observed as a disfigurement and puffiness of young and tender growth) is equated as being a graft transmittable Psorosis leaf condition. It is what I am not seeing in the petioles and branch that precludes the notion, for now, that the haloes seen on the surface of the leaves may be a Citrus Canker or a Citrus Greening. The concentric, raised puffy areas in the first photo are a little extreme. Not sure what caused this at this time, as it could be an insect that is also at work here. I went through Pretoria's diseases of Citrus information and came up empty for photos showing anything close to the puffy symptoms shown in the above two photos but the disfigured leaves in the lower photo reminds me of Citrus Crinkle. Jim
