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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks, that'd be.

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Speaker 2: Rude climb pastes our men in the garden road. And

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Speaker 2: if your place is anything like mine, which I know

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Speaker 2: it isn't, you will be overrun with melli bugs about

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Speaker 2: ninety percent of the year. I don't know what it is.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how we attract them, but once they're there,

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Speaker 2: they're so hard to get rid of.

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Speaker 3: Because you don't see them when they start. Check that's

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Speaker 3: the point. They're tiny, and then they grow bigger in

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Speaker 3: there they eye. So these are my little white little

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Speaker 3: rottters that look quite gorgeous and beautifully attached to the

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Speaker 3: white filaments that they let go everywhere and so on

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Speaker 3: so forth. But they are sucking bugs. They suck dudes

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Speaker 3: out of your plants, and that's how you notice that

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Speaker 3: your plants are getting very debilitated after a while. So

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Speaker 3: for those of you that we don't know what we're

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Speaker 3: talking about or don't know what we're talking about, it's

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Speaker 3: white mealy buggy type stuff. It's like a complete white Okay,

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Speaker 3: these guys have got all the white stuff all over

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Speaker 3: their body and also their tails and all that and

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Speaker 3: that stuff is waterproof, so that if you use a

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Speaker 3: water based insecticide, it just runs off there like water

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Speaker 3: off a dutch back. So it's as simple as that.

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Speaker 3: So that's not the great way to go. If you

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Speaker 3: know that you have them, and you can see them

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Speaker 3: of course on nine Naturalist, and you can do whatever.

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Speaker 3: Mellibugs are quite common. As you said, the best way

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Speaker 3: to do is to use an oil based insecticide like

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Speaker 3: Conqueror oil, because they can't deal to that because it

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Speaker 3: suffocates them. They can't do that. But even better than

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Speaker 3: that is the Name oil, which is another oil version.

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Speaker 3: There you go. And honestly, if you do that not

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Speaker 3: just once, but let's say every week or so, you'll

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Speaker 3: find you will get on touch on top of them.

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Speaker 3: And the reason is very simple. You do with every

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Speaker 3: now and then is because once they've got little eggs

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Speaker 3: going and little baby's going, they will follow up very quickly.

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Speaker 3: So you need to have another go a week or

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Speaker 3: two weeks later, again and again and again.

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Speaker 2: So when I do it, because we've got n Eem

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Speaker 2: oil for it as well, I think I've taken your

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Speaker 2: advice on that before. If you should be drenching the

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Speaker 2: plant even in bits that you can't see like you should.

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Speaker 2: At the underside of the leaves and all that stuff

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Speaker 2: where it doesn't look like there are any melli bugs,

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Speaker 2: there will be melli bug eggs.

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Speaker 3: I reckon you're probably one of the best listeners to

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Speaker 3: this show.

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Speaker 2: A funny one of one of, though not not necessarily

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Speaker 2: the best.

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Speaker 3: That's I think you're doing well, Jack. You're seeing what

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Speaker 3: you come up with. I love it. Yeah, it feels

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Speaker 3: really good.

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Speaker 2: Finger in the ear and the Three today and christ Church,

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Speaker 2: how's that we're feeling like we're going to have rain

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Speaker 2: it all today.

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Speaker 3: I have no idea what the three is and what

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Speaker 3: christ Which is and what I'm going to take about tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Goodbye, Okay, very good. Well, Rot will not be watching

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Speaker 2: the black Caps then, fair enough as they take on

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Speaker 2: England at Hagley Oval. Game is to start in a

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Speaker 2: couple of minutes time, day three of the first Test

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Speaker 2: between England and the black Caps. I'll make sure I

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Speaker 2: keep you up to speak with how that's going after

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Speaker 2: eleven o'clock.

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