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title: "Ugh, are these black spots thrips?? Newbie plant mom here and…"
description: "Ugh, are these black spots thrips?? Newbie plant mom here and panicking. I’ve washed and neem oiled all of my plants and captain jacks bug spray coming…"
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community: "Pests, diseases and problems"
author: "Lo"
published: "2025-04-04T22:09:24.169503Z"
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# Ugh, are these black spots thrips?? Newbie plant mom here and…

_Posted by Lo on 2025-04-04_

Ugh, are these black spots thrips?? Newbie plant mom here and panicking. I’ve washed and neem oiled all of my plants and captain jacks bug spray coming tomorrow. Any other recs?

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## 3 comments

### KJM commented on 2025-04-05

I think you'll need a better picture. I don't see any thrips on this plant.

### BigGrac commented on 2025-04-05

Just a heads up, I think you’ll want to wait like a week before applying captain jack’s after neem oil. It’s not harmful to do it earlier but I believe it isn’t effective because neem oil kills by suffocating so it doesn’t really let the captain jacks do its job.

#### Lo replied on 2025-04-05

Thank you for this!

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