Name: Susan Virginia (Zone 8a) God is the only thing that matters.
She is in zone 9. I thought it would be worth a second try for her. The problem with scales is the hard waxy coating they have. I heard insecticide soap would melt the wax coating and then the bug dies. Hummmm.
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Mat.6:28-29