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title: "Hey everyone, My polka is always having these brown bumps and I’m not…"
description: "Hey everyone, My polka is always having these brown bumps and I’m not sure what they are. I can easily scrape them off but they always reappear. When I do…"
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community: "Pests, diseases and problems"
author: "Elle Woods"
published: "2023-09-10T21:49:33.247Z"
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# Hey everyone, My polka is always having these brown bumps and I’m not…

_Elle Woods님이 2023-09-10에 게시함_

Hey everyone,  
My polka is always having these brown bumps and I’m not sure what they are. I can easily scrape them off but they always reappear. When I do scrape them off they’re soft. Of note, there are a couple ants crawling around but I don’t notice any other pests on the leaves. I’ve used neem oil and a Castile soap mixture but they still come back. The plant seems otherwise healthy except I noticed some of the new growth leaves are all green with minimal pink dots. Any ideas?

![1개 중 1번째 첨부 파일](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/H4FDPibuvnA63eyTfyGMnin-AAEPrrXzUQxvNxLXdAk/b58da7149a064106b1227e6bcb06a91a.webp?size=large)

## 3개의 댓글

### MeasomerPi님이 2023-09-10에 댓글을 남겼어요.

It’s scale. Isolate the plant so that they don’t spread.

I find the best way to deal with them is to manually remove them by rubbing off the bugs with a cotton swab soaked in rubbing alcohol. Repeat weekly until they stop showing up.

If the plant is too big to do that, remove what you can as described above and then treat with neem per the directions.

Also the ants like to farm scale for their honeydew (poop) 😕🤢🤮

#### Elle Woods님이 2023-09-10에 답변했습니다.

Eww.. I always kind of thought it was scale but I just don’t know why they keep coming back. And it’s like right next to my special needs areca palm 😅

### Angelkisses927님이 2023-09-11에 댓글을 남겼어요.

It may also be fungus. I had it all over my hollyhock flower plant. You may also try copper fungicide

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