I have spider mites on my alocasia - I’ve wiped all the l...
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You might want to wipe the leaves with alcohol (70%) if the soapy water doesn’t do the trick. Neem oil can help, but not all plants like neem oil. So you may want to test it on a leaf first before spraying the entire plant. Whatever you decide to do, you may have to repeat it again. Those little buggers can be quite tenacious.
I had both my Hawaiian desert roses get attacked recently. Tried safer end all which has poison and neem oil and insecticidal soap and they kept coming back. Tried bonide 8 spray also with sulfur and poison and they still kept coming back even though it’s supposed to work on spider mites. Neither worked even trying to spray every day they kept coming back and killing more of the healthy leaves. So I got the bonide systemic liquid poison that you mix with water. It’s supposed to kill 100 or more hard to kill pests. Is says it kills two types of spider mites that are harder to kill. The poison stays in the system of the plant. So far that’s the only thing that has worked and stopped them from coming back. Same thing with aphids on my baby toes plant. They wouldn’t stop coming back. The systemic got rid of them it seems. So when all else fails the bonide systemic spray did the job so far. Had to bring out the super poison
