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title: "First photos you’ll see some buggers. What do I do? There’s like…"
description: "First photos you’ll see some buggers. What do I do? There’s like three leaves that have these along with small brown dots on the leaf. On the last photo, all…"
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author: "Bates"
published: "2023-05-29T16:16:00.031Z"
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# First photos you’ll see some buggers. What do I do? There’s like…

_Posted by Bates on 2023-05-29_

First photos you’ll see some buggers. What do I do? There’s like three leaves that have these along with small brown dots on the leaf. On the last photo, all the other leaves look ok.

What do I do? Is this bad?? I bought this 5 days ago and these little buggers weren’t here. Haven’t watered it yet. Supposed to water it by tomorrow or so. What should I do to make sure it doesn’t get worse

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## 5 comments

### TaTyana commented on 2023-05-29

You can wipe it down with rubbing alcohol or mix water, dish soap and alcohol in a spray bottle and spray it down. Those look like they could be mealybugs and I’ve had those before. Also isolate this plant from others so that it doesn’t spread to other plants!

### Daisy commented on 2023-05-29

You could spray neem oil

### Grace commented on 2023-05-30

Take water and lavender and peppermint essential oil’s and mix and spray on your plant

### Bates commented on 2023-05-30

A friend told me to cut off the leaves with pests. It was about 3 leaves. Neem oil arriving today

I water the plant today then spray Neem oil ?

#### Sara replied on 2023-05-31

Yes spray the leaves with neem oil, both front and back of leaves! Spray them in the evenings because neem oil can possibly make plant leaves burn if they get direct sun. I’d spray once tonight, and then again in 48 hours, and then maybe once more again 48 hours after that to make sure they are gone! Then you’ll want to add neem oil to your regular care routine (about once every 14 days for spider mite/mealy bug prone plants, or once a month for those plants that aren’t very prone)

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