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title: "I saw mealy bugs today for the first time ever…🫣🫤 hopefully my…"
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# I saw mealy bugs today for the first time ever…🫣🫤 hopefully my…

_Publié par Suhn\_Goddess le 2025-03-12_

I saw mealy bugs today for the first time ever…🫣🫤 hopefully my plant will be ok. 😊

## 2 commentaires

### Alocasia addict a commenté le 2025-03-12

Touch them with rubbing alcohol on a qtip or spray them off with a gentle shower. If you see them they probably already have laid eggs as well so you will have to do this a several times until they are gone

### Bebe🌵🤍 a commenté le 2025-03-12

I second what Alocasia addict said! I’d get it out of the pot, treat with some rubbing alcohol on a qtip, do a hydrogen peroxide dip, in some fresh soil (clean the pot if you’re going to reuse it,) and treat with an insecticide

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