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?
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) 😕🤢🤮
5 likesEww.. 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 😅
0 likesIt may also be fungus. I had it all over my hollyhock flower plant. You may also try copper fungicide
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