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title: "Spider mites, help! New plant mom. Growing my collection over last…"
description: "Spider mites, help! New plant mom. Growing my collection over last year and it’s been going so well. But I’ve noticed little white webs on all my plants.…"
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community: "Pests, diseases and problems"
author: "Demented Flora"
published: "2026-06-08T13:00:49.034863Z"
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# Spider mites, help! New plant mom. Growing my collection over last…

_Posted by Demented Flora on 2026-06-08_

Spider mites, help! New plant mom. Growing my collection over last year and it’s been going so well. But I’ve noticed little white webs on all my plants. Started getting to occasional damaged or yellow leaf (May or may not be related) but want to squash this. ASAP. I’ve been using sexy plant spray to clean leaves weekly (70% iso alcohol, pprmt soap, neem oil, water mix, recommended often online). I bought some beneficial pest (but I think the ones I got only treat fungus knats). I did spray with cold water too. I can’t separate really cause my house is tiny and I have too many plants (bad lighting) and not enough plant lights to make that work. I live in Atlanta so it’s warm and I could move outside but I worry that’ll welcome MORE pest and come winter I’ll have a disaster when I move back indoors. Idk. Ideas? Advice?

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## 2 comments

### plantgeek commented on 2026-06-08

routinely spray the entirety of every affected plant in a neem oil spray. i use Natria. when i had an infestation i sprayed every afternoon, they were gone in a week. i did still have a few casualties, the smaller plants struggled, but it worked. spider mites like to hang out on the petioles and the undersides of leaves, look underneath to determine if a plant is affected or not. still do whatever you can to move healthy plants away from affected ones, group infested plants together to save space.

### Matilda commented on 2026-06-08

When I had spider mites it helped me to physically rinse all the affected plants off - I just stuck them in the shower and once they were rinsed I used the bug killer

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