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title: "I’m not entirely sure why kind of plant this is, but it has these…"
description: "I’m not entirely sure why kind of plant this is, but it has these little bug looking things on it. Will these harm the plant? Do I need to get rid of them? If…"
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community: "Anything about plants"
author: "athena"
published: "2024-09-21T18:40:29.971823Z"
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# I’m not entirely sure why kind of plant this is, but it has these…

_Publicado por athena el 2024-09-21_

I’m not entirely sure why kind of plant this is, but it has these little bug looking things on it. Will these harm the plant? Do I need to get rid of them? If so, how?

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## 3 comentarios

### hailey comentó el 2024-09-21

um yeah those are scale bugs😭at my garden center job we usually spray bugs off with pesticides but when there’s not many, we take tweezers and take the bugs off individually and rinse them off in a jar of rubbing alcohol to kill them.

#### athena respondió el 2024-10-10

thank you so much! are they hard to get rid of, and do they harm the plant much?

### Ray L comentó el 2024-09-21

That's variegated Elephant Bush. Portulacaria afra

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