My friend gifted me this rubber plant a few weeks ago and she didn't realize it had spider mites. I've never had spider mites before so I didn't really know how to tackle the issue I wiped down the plants with some alcohol and water for maybe a week, and for a while, it seemed like the spider mites were gone.
Until today!!
This plant has never been around my other plants yet somehow my zebra plant also got spider mites. I've been wiping it down like my rubber plant and there haven't been webs on it for a while. (Keep in mind the rubber plant was INFESTED. It was almost encased in webs. While i caught the spider mights on my zebra plant when there was only a single web going from one stem to a leaf) I made sure to keep these plants away from my other ones but I didn't realize these things could freaking FLY. There are no webs like this around my zebra plant.
The last time I cleaner my home was last weekend. These webs showed up today.
CARE: All of my plants get watered when th3 soil is dry. I saw that these plants don't need too much sun so its been where yall see it in the video the entire time NEVER around any other plant. My zebra plant is about the same distance away from the window but on the other side of my living room.
by TheLazyARMY
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Eww! I didn’t know they moved like that either…. you’d think that would be far enough away from other plants.
I’m confused because I’m not doubting your plants had spider mites if they were encased in fine webbing, but the thing I see that I think is a long line of web? doesn’t look like it’d be from spider mites. They’re tiny and don’t make long webs like a spider, from everything I’ve read
Neem oil. Mix with water and dish soap as directed and spray the undersides and tops of the leaves on all your plants.
That looks like typical spider web, in fact it might have been a spider egg that hatched. The babies are tiny and they launch themselves on webs.
Your plant seems pretty healthy, are you sure it has spider mites? Spider mites are nearly invisible and they have to be quite bad for you to see the super fine webbing on the plant.
I think that’s just a regular spider web. Spider mites don’t web like that, they web close to the leaves and not in lines like that.
Spider mites are super easy, all you have to do is burn down the house, leave behind every worldly possession including the clothes on your back, and start over. Voila! All better!