Jessica is right, I had to remove them with a swab with alcohol, one by one, every day, every plant. Every day I will find them again, until I didn’t see them anymore. I hate them.
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]]>They sound like they could be fungus gnats.
]]>Interesting. It doesn’t sound like any common houseplant pest out there, so I doubt that it will harm your plant. It’s probably just living in the soil. I would recommend purchasing some fresh potting soil and repotting the plant, removing as much of the old soil as possible. Do this outside so the little critter currently living in it, doesn’t escape into your home. This is a great time of year to repot houseplants, so you should have no problem.
]]>It had quite a enough legs to freak me out but it dug into the soil when I tried to get a closer look so I don’t know what it is. I don’t see any others but I do seem to see little holes around the soil in the pot from where it’s been moving in and out. It doesn’t look like any pictures of aloe plant bugs I’ve seen. It doesn’t look like really anything I’ve seen. It kind of looked like a maggot and a caterpillar had a baby but a lot less legs.
I don’t do well with bugs and generally end up killing the plant trying to rid it of them. (RIP Peace Lily) I’m trying to figure out what it is, if it’s gonna harm the plant, and if I leave it if it’ll breed like gnats do and I’ll end up with s family of the little buggers taking over my soil.
]]>Sounds very much like cottony scale or perhaps mealybugs, both of which don’t move much and don’t look like bugs at all. They look like little tufts of cotton. Treat according to the scale instructions above.
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