Well, I am totally fed up with scale insects! The ones on the holly are not causing me trouble but the ones on the Viburnum Dawn have multiplied beyond belief and the leaves are coated in the honey dew - a way that the scale insects get rid of excess sugar, they secrete this sticky substance and it drips on tho the leaves beneath. At the weekend I washed the "sticky" leaves with water - but the next day they were sticky again, so I tried a drop of washing-up liquid in with the water. This worked much better but now the honey dew is really thick. The weird thing is the smell - it smells like petrol or parafin. It looks like I am fighting a losing battle - anyone got any pine ladybirds I can borrow
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