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title: "Help, my string of pearls was looking very healthy until about a week…"
description: "Help, my string of pearls was looking very healthy until about a week ago, and now most of its ‘strings’ are either becoming shriveled or rotten and there’s…"
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# Help, my string of pearls was looking very healthy until about a week…

_erised님이 2024-08-12에 게시함_

Help, my string of pearls was looking very healthy until about a week ago, and now most of its ‘strings’ are either becoming shriveled or rotten and there’s some sort of mold/ miniature ant-like animals running around the soil

![2개 중 1번째 첨부 파일](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/ST2a1s46eFaB-w37MrHO9G3gMIlnAHifejA91IUevas/3LcXXUxQRoe-DKc6MeliLQ.webp?size=large)

![2개 중 2번째 첨부 파일](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/ST2a1s46eFaB-w37MrHO9G3gMIlnAHifejA91IUevas/TFEZMoCaSZmJ_FJzg0aexg.webp?size=large)

## 5개의 댓글

### Daril님이 2024-08-12에 댓글을 남겼어요.

Same - minus the insects!

### ElizabethF님이 2024-08-12에 댓글을 남겼어요.

Are the insects white and fuzzy looking? Those would be mealy bugs. You’ll need to remove them with isopropyl alcohol on a qtip. You can also make a diluted spray but you may want to test it on a section of your string of pearls before applying it everywhere.

#### erised님이 2024-08-12에 답변했습니다.

Yes! I’ll try that, thank you

### Alyssa님이 2024-08-12에 댓글을 남겼어요.

It’s probably going into root rot decomposing territory…possibly fungus gnats in the soil too or thrips not sure what you mean by ant like

#### erised님이 2024-08-12에 답변했습니다.

It looks decomposing fungus-like

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