Hello! This morning I noticed these whitish brown insects in my Yucca Cane’s soil. Does anyone know what they are and how to get rid of them. I currently have my Yucca Cane isolated from my other plants and sprayed the soil with neem oil as a precaution. There is also diatomaceous earth mixed in the potting soil to help with pests from when I repotted him in the fall. He usually lives next to my back door and gets about 8 hrs of bright indirect light and I water it only about once every 3-4 weeks since it’s winter and doesn’t appear to be growing as much.
by AB_FineArtsandCrafts
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They look like harmless soil mites to me. I wouldn’t be worried but keen to get others thoughts too 🙂
Agree, soil mites. Harmless.
That’s a lot of mites-(is that normal) I was thinking aphids. Do they fly?
When all else fails I spray some diluted alcohol on it
They look evil and menessing
They are harmless mites, but are indicators that this plant is overwatered and possibly has been more than once or for a duration of time.
Ease up on the watering, cease spraying, as these mites can be helpful, and return the plant to its favored lighting. The mites will dissipate as the moisture in the soil does. Some mites will likely always be present as normal in a soil that isn’t sterile or has aged and is no longer inert.
Soil mites. I like having them around as they will opportunistically eat other harmful types of mite
I had similar ones directly in the soil, then many leaves dropped and the plant looked so ugly because of it so i threw it in the trash out of fear for my other plants.