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title: "Help! I don’t know what to do about my Stella calathea I really don’t…"
description: "Help! I don’t know what to do about my Stella calathea I really don’t water it every day just what’s recommended. I did find some bugs in the soil today and I…"
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author: "Natasha"
published: "2024-06-23T20:23:08.351336Z"
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# Help! I don’t know what to do about my Stella calathea I really don’t…

_Posted by Natasha on 2024-06-23_

Help! I don’t know what to do about my Stella calathea I really don’t water it every day just what’s recommended. I did find some bugs in the soil today and I completely cleaned the roots and gave it new soil but what do I do about these leaves?

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## 6 comments

### send\_nodes commented on 2024-06-24

Do you remember what the bugs looked like? They may still be eating the plant

#### send\_nodes replied on 2024-06-24

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#### Natasha replied on 2024-06-24

I think it was the fungus gnats

#### send\_nodes replied on 2024-06-24

That’s good, they’re not too damaging to plants but their larvae sometimes will chew on the roots a bit. I add mosquito bits to my plant water to get rid of them

#### Natasha replied on 2024-06-24

I’ll have to try it out

### Louis commented on 2024-06-24

I have same thing with fungus snat

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