Help! Can you ID these fast white critters please?
Hello plant experts! I’m quite new to houseplants, and entirely new here, so it’s good to meet you!
I’m trying to identify the spider-like, very fast little critters in my Peace lily. I’ve put a video on YouTube https://youtu.be/EIUDioPfbcM?si=1rsnBpos9Fugg0xJ and the below awful quality image is taken from that video. They’re very small bugs, around a millimetre I’d guess. I thought they could be white spider mites but the leaves look ok. I’ve isolated the plant and sprayed it with a rubbing alcohol solution. I’m not happy with not knowing for sure what the problem is. I’ve checked my other plants and for now they seem ok.
I’ll greatly appreciate your experience and responses!
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last yearOh it’s indoors. I’d forgotten that people outside the UK’s cold autumn climate might read this 😃 The early cold here seeps into every thought!
I read various options for dealing with pests and the one I saw recommended in various places and as useful overall, and which I also had to hand in the house, was rubbing alcohol. I now also have neem oil.
I sprayed the topsoil and the leaves. The plant has never been outside. It was originally from IKEA.
Yes my main concerns are that whatever it is doesn’t infest my other plants—it lived next to a mature Monstera which itself is by a Yukka, and not too far from a mature Xanadu, which all seem ok so far—and also that whatever it is doesn’t infest the house.
I spoke with a houseplant trader over the phone yesterday—not where I bought the plant—and they advised that my description of the bug didn’t sound like anything normal and that it could be more trouble than it’s worth to try to save the plant.
For now, the Peace lily is in the middle of my box room, away from all other plants. I’ve taken some new photos just now.I’d far prefer to avoid using insecticide on all my plants. I have many throughout the house and also have a dog.
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