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title: "Okay so it looks like the dish soap and warm water worked on the…"
description: "Okay so it looks like the dish soap and warm water worked on the spider mites!!! I’m still keeping her away from my other plants but she’s given me the…"
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community: "Show your plants"
author: "Gilly"
published: "2025-10-02T05:34:40.794943Z"
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# Okay so it looks like the dish soap and warm water worked on the…

_Posted by Gilly on 2025-10-02_

Okay so it looks like the dish soap and warm water worked on the spider mites!!! I’m still keeping her away from my other plants but she’s given me the prettiest leaf alone with a sneak peal at the new one!!! I’ve been wiping the leaves now only once a week and no bugs!!!!!! Hopefully I’m not celebrating too soon…

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## 2 comments

### Queen Anne plant dad commented on 2025-10-02

Nice! Increasing humidity and using daily fans helps too. You can also create a mixture of neem, a tiny bit of dish soap and water and spray that too the underside of the leaves that will destroy them it prevents them from reproducing and eating immediately

### Queen Anne plant dad commented on 2025-10-02

They sneak up on me all the time having lots of plants lol so I have my neem ready etc

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