--- title: "Help... what is this? My searches suggest maybe spider mite? It's…" description: "Help... what is this? My searches suggest maybe spider mite? It's only on 1 plant. Has never spread. Should have dealt with it prior but just got the app to…" url: "https://getplanta.com/community/lKxUkhzRR_aIJD7o1QvtwQ/hM3ZoYvJY9UMLo5l7ZZ2Pv?language=ko" community: "Pests, diseases and problems" author: "Channelle" published: "2025-04-28T15:56:44.168239Z" language: "en" image: "https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/pZEjtyzQhCXesG0II8skg-3pP4SovhRWKN1HyNVh2rE/6ksV1udNSGW92erorsxXZg.webp?size=large" --- [커뮤니티](https://getplanta.com/community.md?language=ko) / [Pests, diseases and problems](https://getplanta.com/community/lKxUkhzRR_aIJD7o1QvtwQ.md?language=ko) # Help... what is this? My searches suggest maybe spider mite? It's… _Channelle님이 2025-04-28에 게시함_ Help... what is this? My searches suggest maybe spider mite? It's only on 1 plant. Has never spread. Should have dealt with it prior but just got the app to seek advice. ![1개 중 1번째 첨부 파일](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/pZEjtyzQhCXesG0II8skg-3pP4SovhRWKN1HyNVh2rE/6ksV1udNSGW92erorsxXZg.webp?size=large) ## 21개의 댓글 ### Keesh T님이 2025-04-28에 댓글을 남겼어요. Spider mites ### Dani님이 2025-04-28에 댓글을 남겼어요. Def spider mites. I recommend insecticidal soap, or diluted neem oil. Spray that sucker down, wait an hour and rinse off with water. Treat every 4-5 days for 2-3 weeks. ### Carly 🤍님이 2025-04-28에 댓글을 남겼어요. I would also quarantine your plant so others don’t get spider mites. They easily spread to others! ### Sunny님이 2025-04-28에 댓글을 남겼어요. Terrifying. Only fire can cleanse it! 😄 It’s small enough to dunk in insecticidal soap or Castile soap to kill off everything. They spread easily by hands and tools. Isolate the plant and retreat weekly until they are all gone. 🪴🍀 #### Dave\_opuntiaface님이 2025-04-28에 답변했습니다. I doubted people’s devotion when reading comments a few years back in the “I stopped keeping cactus because of bugs” attitude. “Fire” is not an exaggeration. The eggs are so small, and it’s hard to distinguish the slight difference in shade of healthy wool or “wool covered in eggs” with the main offenders. Leafy plants like this need a more gentle touch, but (this note is a directed to the larger conversation of this post) I early on consulted with a YT/IG account sucsforyou on the level of detail and intensity of “THOROUGHLY clean” involved. #### Sunny님이 2025-04-28에 답변했습니다. I lost my beautiful alocasia zebrina to spider mites and my lovely Hoya Krimson Queen, my oldest and favorite hoya, to several onslaughts of mealybugs. They didn’t bother other plants. I tried everything but the lung cancer causing system granules. Then, just tossed both of them after 2 months of losing battles. 😭 ![2개 중 1번째 첨부 파일](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/wefqOljjhEOiS9LRzOB1-QhxkVJiB4A5DGumXhnNrhs/NXSAc0ssTtaq_UAI1_Wn6g.webp?size=large) ![2개 중 2번째 첨부 파일](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/wefqOljjhEOiS9LRzOB1-QhxkVJiB4A5DGumXhnNrhs/dWgYyOFcR7qxMMwbRv_WXw.webp?size=large) #### Dave\_opuntiaface님이 2025-04-29에 답변했습니다. I think I'm going on 14 months trying to purge the mealy network in this one. ![1개 중 1번째 첨부 파일](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/gFKgBIDtQUSoNHyzAXA4pLM-wYI4yLGXFPAMGDtMt3o/yyzotiG0SwaAExKyzywsoA.webp?size=large) ### Brown Bear님이 2025-04-28에 댓글을 남겼어요. Also don't forget about ladybugs they will eat them, apids too #### Dave\_opuntiaface님이 2025-04-28에 답변했습니다. Upvote lol. Ladybugs seems like a weird idea, and the scene when releasing 100-200 bugs in the corner of my kitchen was “What am I doing?” And then you’ll watch a ladybug eating a pile of bugs/eggs (mealy bugs in my scenario last year). But, apparently, they also perish when touching all the aforementioned cleaning mixtures. #### Dave\_opuntiaface님이 2025-04-28에 답변했습니다. It is a coincidence that this photo popped up today on my "your photos from 2024" notification :) ![1개 중 1번째 첨부 파일](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/gFKgBIDtQUSoNHyzAXA4pLM-wYI4yLGXFPAMGDtMt3o/7kMk45YaTbW-EBuaPYfZ0Q.webp?size=large) #### Dave\_opuntiaface님이 2025-04-28에 답변했습니다. And I remember what happened the last time I posted this. To answer a big question: the plant naturally grows about 95% of anything white on the plant; it is not covered in bugs lol. I just want to show how flipping hard it was to spot the eggs and remains of pests. #### Sunny님이 2025-04-29에 답변했습니다. One ladybug cleaning up some orange aphids on my hoya! ![1개 중 1번째 첨부 파일](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/wefqOljjhEOiS9LRzOB1-QhxkVJiB4A5DGumXhnNrhs/CNHh8tT6Rz62gdfcp-11ww.webp?size=large) #### Dave\_opuntiaface님이 2025-04-30에 답변했습니다. I need to order my ladybugs, stat! ### Channelle님이 2025-04-28에 댓글을 남겼어요. Thank you for the advice. I will isolate and treat. ### monster\_maniac님이 2025-04-28에 댓글을 남겼어요. SPIDER MITES I HATE RHOSE THINGS isolate PLEASE and even though it doesnt look like it spread u should def check ur other plants just in case ### Phil님이 2025-04-28에 댓글을 남겼어요. Toss it to protect your other plants. It’s going to take a lot of diligence to eradicate that infestation. #### Channelle님이 2025-04-28에 답변했습니다. This is what I was leaning to. It's a small plant. Seems like a reasonable sacrifice for the sake of my other plants. #### Phil님이 2025-04-29에 답변했습니다. Yeah it’s bad and you’ll be lucky if other plants aren’t affected. Try using a systemic such as Bonide. It can help. #### Dave\_opuntiaface님이 2025-05-01에 답변했습니다. This is the only effective treatment, for reals. I didn’t understand the magnitude of mealies, and then started losing Lithops to them. This pot is the site of patients 0, 1, 2 - the rest were all finally isolated, but we’ll see in a few months if they survived reconstructive surgery. ![1개 중 1번째 첨부 파일](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/gFKgBIDtQUSoNHyzAXA4pLM-wYI4yLGXFPAMGDtMt3o/AeV0Rk5aRPquHqXQEmHOkQ.webp?size=large) #### Dave\_opuntiaface님이 2025-05-01에 답변했습니다. ![1개 중 1번째 첨부 파일](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/gFKgBIDtQUSoNHyzAXA4pLM-wYI4yLGXFPAMGDtMt3o/EWPSDZOZSgqpoFgTJH-ROw.webp?size=large) ### Dave\_opuntiaface님이 2025-04-29에 댓글을 남겼어요. I think I'm going on 14 months trying to purge the mealy network in this one. ![1개 중 1번째 첨부 파일](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/gFKgBIDtQUSoNHyzAXA4pLM-wYI4yLGXFPAMGDtMt3o/5-EjivEzQ3-LtV0_6fSyFA.webp?size=large) --- _Planta 커뮤니티 (https://getplanta.com). 누구나 읽을 수 있습니다. 게시물을 올리고, 댓글을 달고, 좋아요를 누르려면 Planta 앱을 다운로드하세요: https://getplanta.com/download_