What you describe sounds like cottony mealybugs. Depending on how many there are, a good treatment is to use alcohol dipped q-tips to dab individual bugs. This will have to be done several times over a few weeks, keeping up with their egg cycle. If there are too many to do individually, try spraying the bugs with child-safe insecticidal soap, once again administering the treatment several times over a few weeks.
Hi Mia,
What you describe sounds like cottony mealybugs. Depending on how many there are, a good treatment is to use alcohol dipped q-tips to dab individual bugs. This will have to be done several times over a few weeks, keeping up with their egg cycle. If there are too many to do individually, try spraying the bugs with child-safe insecticidal soap, once again administering the treatment several times over a few weeks.
Good luck!