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title: "What are these???????? First time having pests. This is on my…"
description: "What are these???????? First time having pests. This is on my elephant ear leaf. She’s never been outside and she has been around my other plants 🥺"
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community: "Anything about plants"
author: "Felicia"
published: "2024-05-06T17:33:12.848191Z"
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# What are these???????? First time having pests. This is on my…

_Posted by Felicia on 2024-05-06_

What are these???????? First time having pests. This is on my elephant ear leaf. She’s never been outside and she has been around my other plants 🥺

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## 5 comments

### Harris commented on 2024-05-06

Could be spider mites? Treat immediately and aggressively.

### Sunny commented on 2024-05-06

Check for fine webs where the leaf meets the leaf stem and on the leaf front/back. Then, it’s spider mites.

### SnappityWhizBang commented on 2024-05-07

Do those specs move or can you brush them off easily? In this pic it almost looks like dirt.

#### Felicia replied on 2024-05-07

It was kind of stuck on. I wiped them off with a qtip. And when I did the qtip turned red

#### SnappityWhizBang replied on 2024-05-07

That could indicate they are mealy bugs, but they are usually white/whiteish. I don’t know much about them, though

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