They are crafty little buggers. My NP is suffering with them. It took me over a year to discover why my NP was going brown from the bottom up. I finally got the idea to lookaat the plant a few days ago with my magnifying camera which I use to be able to read books. Sure enough the microscopic cotton fluff was on the NP. I'll have to attack them with a spraying because with the camera it is basically impossible to dab with alcohol. Without the camera, I'm not able to see them. So far I've been spraying the NP with BASIC H and water solution..