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Onyx Plant

SOS!! I got this plant (Hoya Carnosa) from a reputable nursery and it looked fine. I don't have any bugs on any of my other plants, but when I was checking Navi (my Hoya C) they had these small orange bugs attached to a few of their woody stems. I am entirely new to Hoyas. This is my first one, I have largely owned Pothos and Philodendron. I also have never had bugs that were not fungas gnats or soil critters before and am not really sure what to do about these guys or even what they are. I moved my plant into a "quarentine" of sorts but I could really use some advice. I am on a very limited budget, as a college student, but have quite an extensive collection of random plant supplies built up over the last 5 years, so if you suggest a treatment I might have it or may be able to get it if it isn't local to you or super pricey. Thank you for any help. I really appreciate it. With everything going on in my classes at the moment the absolute last thing I can handle right now is an infestation in my 70+ plant collection. I included pictures of the pests, the worst of the branches, the plant, and it's normal home in the house. I am happy to provide any further info needed to figure this out.

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  1. KJM

    These are aphids. Take your pot to the sink and use your sprayer thing and kind of blast them off the stems then give them a treatment with a pesticide. Something like name or horticultural oil or Captain Jack's.

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  2. KJM

    Aphids can appear suddenly especially with a change in environment. The environment gets right for the hatching and you have an explosion of aphids.

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    • Onyx Plant

      Oh nooo... okay so I don't have a sprayer thing on my sink, we just have a regular faucet, we don't have a bathtub, I would have to use the landscaping hose outside, do you think that would be okay, or would that be too hard on the plant??

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  3. Sunny

    Orange aphids can come with the plant or come from the environment on clothing, pests and other sources. My Hoya Multiflora had an infestation 6 months after I bought it and after it was brought inside. Spider mites, mealybugs are common on indoor plants in the colder months. I knocked them off with a hard spray from the garden hose. Then, treated with insecticidal soap. They returned a month later. I used Raid ant spray insecticide on them the second time after another water spray. They seemed to work. But, I use this as a last resort because the plant is inside away from beneficial insects and reptiles. I will wash off as much of the insecticide before putting the Hoya outside in spring. 🪴🍀

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    • Onyx Plant

      If i wanted to just try to use less chemicals do you think the water/alcohol/dish soap route might work? Or should I just go straight to the pesticides? I don't put my plants outside because no one cares for the outside plants and they usually have white flies or aphids. (I rent)

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    • Onyx Plant

      But i do have animals and a nephew who i want to be careful about

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    • Abbi

      I use one part alcohol three parts water and a bit of dish soap and its worked for spidermites and mealybugs. I've never used it on aphids but I don't see why it wouldn't work for them. It even kills brown recluse spiders and those take lots of raid to kill😳

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  4. KJM

    Horticultural oil, neem, and Captain Jack's are all organic treatments. It's always good to try and remove as many as possible with a firm spray of water first.

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