Treatment of an apple tree against lace bugs:

F day Damage done on top of a leaf which was originally completely green.	F day A lace bug is small, but what a pest!
F day Lace bugs are hidden under the leaves they are feasting from.	F day Under the adjacent leaf.
F+2	F+4
F+6	F+7
F+8 Adults bugs have disappeared from F+4 and everything seems still.	F+11 No tiger busy. Seen with a magnifying glass, there are two dried alive lace bugs, which most likely starved to death... The spots are dried eggs and droppings.
F+11 And the subsequent days will tell us if the cells emptied of their chlorophyll turn back to a green hue. Anyway, the other leaves are saved and protected from lace bugs. A sequel. F+56 we can only note that the heavily attacked leaves are slowly drying.

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