Citrus Pests

While walking around my garden the other day, contemplating how to go about tidying up all the weeds, I noticed a couple of pests eating my citrus tree leaves. On my Kafir Lime I had scale. Scale is a sap sucking pest, and if allowed to take over will eventualy kill the plant. With a Kafir Lime you eat the leaves, usually in Thai dishes etc, I also like to put them in my Carona's, so scale probably wouldn't taste all that good and would probably make my beer go flat!
On my Lemon and Orange trees I found leave miners, these little critters eat away at the inside of the leaf leaving the leaf looking all twisted. Both of these pests are easily kept under control with White Oil. Summer White Oil is an emulsion of a thin oil (white spirit or parafin oil?) with dish detergent and water, Winter White Oil can be made using a cheap vegetable oil. During summer the heavier vegetable oil will clog up the pores on the citrus leaves and choke them.

Winter White Oil Recipe
http://www.aila.org.au/canberragarden/maintenance/white_oil.pdf