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Toss or keep?


I don't know what these are. I've been spraing with alcohol and wiping or hosing them off with pressure on less brittle plants like my ficus.

Please help and advise on what to do. Thanks
Plenty of light, good drainage and watering plant is growing actively but has these gross pests.

by ge23ev

14 Comments

  4. BreadCheese

    Scale insects, you can try to keep removing with rubbing alcohol if it’s worth it to you. They are pretty annoying pests. I’ve drowned them before with a few drops of dish soap and water in a spray bottle before too.

  5. DebateZealousideal57

    You can keep killing them on sight but you need to treat the plant with a systemic insecticide like Imidicloprid to make scale go away

  7. themoertel

    I get a lot of satisfaction in killing scale on my schefflera. However, I have been killing them sporadically for a month now. Use some kind of insecticide like neem oil

  8. Apprehensive_Bat_973

    I’d wipe off and then spray plant leaves w/ neem oil

  9. GrackleTree

    Check any crevice where leaves join stem, there are probably super tiny ones that are making their way up the stem. I’ve crushed big ones to find new ones a week later. SUPER annoying to deal with.

  10. PenguinsPrincess78

    Keep plant and treat with systemic pesticides or Castile soap with some tea tree or lavender etc.

  11. betterupsetter

    Do not use neem oil. It will suffocate the leaves.

    I use rubbing alcohol on a q-tip to remove scale from my orchid. It gets some scale every year, but I’ve had it now for close to a decade, so it doesn’t seem to permanently damage it if dealt with semi-regularly.

  12. lovelytee

    I had the same pest with the same plant too! What worked for me was removing the infested leaves. I tried removing the scales with a qtip and rubbing alchol but they always came back the next day or so.

  13. Admirable_Werewolf_5

    You could try soaking the plant in water overnight, literally the entire thing. I use dish soap because it works well for most pests. Generous amount. Insecticidal soap would probably help better.

    Can make the leaves a little ugly but it does work. Like others said you can kill them on sight but the problem is you won’t see them all often.

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