Hello and welcome to the podcast for people with a propensity for plants, or on the ledge for short.

I'm your host, Jane Perrone, and in this week's show, we're talking about predators on your

plants, yes, biological controls. Plus, I'll be answering a question about

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when you start bringing house plants into your home, it is inevitable that there will be some

livestock that either comes in with the plants or arrives on your plants in due course,

whether it's mealy bugs, those fluffy white terrors of the cactine

succulent world, spider mites, those invisible assassins of your Marantagroup plants, or fungus

gnats, the floaty, but oh so annoying flies that lay their eggs in your compost, all of these

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