Comments on: Types of houseplant bugs: Who they are and what to do about them https://farm-kits.com/types-of-houseplant-bugs/ Cultivating curiosity and confidence Fri, 24 Oct 2025 13:51:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.5 By: Charlize https://farm-kits.com/types-of-houseplant-bugs/comment-page-2/#comment-149414 Thu, 01 Feb 2024 04:30:50 +0000 http://savvygardening.com/?p=4130#comment-149414 Lilia. 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.]]> In reply to Lilia.

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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By: JS https://farm-kits.com/types-of-houseplant-bugs/comment-page-5/#comment-141305 Wed, 04 Jan 2023 08:11:06 +0000 http://savvygardening.com/?p=4130#comment-141305 JS. I've also tried nematodes.]]> In reply to JS.

I’ve also tried nematodes.

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By: Charlotte Godfrey https://farm-kits.com/types-of-houseplant-bugs/comment-page-4/#comment-140693 Mon, 28 Nov 2022 02:12:36 +0000 http://savvygardening.com/?p=4130#comment-140693 Hi. I have very tiny white bugs on the top of my houseplant leaves. They are very small and do not appear to move. When I finally got a fair photo of them, they look like a 6 legged pest. They are white. I would love
to send a photo, but I don’t see that option. I haven’t seen this pest on any websites.

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By: Sandra https://farm-kits.com/types-of-houseplant-bugs/comment-page-4/#comment-140234 Tue, 08 Nov 2022 19:44:26 +0000 http://savvygardening.com/?p=4130#comment-140234 I have found tiny orange cottony bugs all over several house plants, and have used plant bug spray on the plants. I was wondering what these bugs could be so I can treat my plants properly.

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By: Jessica Walliser https://farm-kits.com/types-of-houseplant-bugs/comment-page-4/#comment-116215 Sun, 18 Apr 2021 21:29:03 +0000 http://savvygardening.com/?p=4130#comment-116215 Gigi. They sound like they could be fungus gnats.]]> In reply to Gigi.

They sound like they could be fungus gnats.

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By: Gigi https://farm-kits.com/types-of-houseplant-bugs/comment-page-4/#comment-115960 Tue, 13 Apr 2021 04:24:21 +0000 http://savvygardening.com/?p=4130#comment-115960 Hi! I have a philodendron with a bunch of tiny black flying bugs on it. They are very annoying and i kill over ten per day. What do you think they are?

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By: Jessica Walliser https://farm-kits.com/types-of-houseplant-bugs/comment-page-4/#comment-114672 Wed, 31 Mar 2021 22:00:36 +0000 http://savvygardening.com/?p=4130#comment-114672 Laura. 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.]]> In reply to Laura.

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.

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By: Laura https://farm-kits.com/types-of-houseplant-bugs/comment-page-4/#comment-114508 Wed, 31 Mar 2021 03:19:42 +0000 http://savvygardening.com/?p=4130#comment-114508 So I know this thread seems to start from a while back but my mom gave me a chinese aloe plant and so far it’s been staying alive, which is great since I’ve killed everything else, but today I went to move it and I saw a white bug about the size of my pinky nail and about the width of it too, it was chunky.

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.

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By: Jessica Walliser https://farm-kits.com/types-of-houseplant-bugs/comment-page-4/#comment-94965 Fri, 04 Dec 2020 16:51:13 +0000 http://savvygardening.com/?p=4130#comment-94965 Avangaline Hull. 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.]]> In reply to Avangaline Hull.

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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By: Avangaline Hull https://farm-kits.com/types-of-houseplant-bugs/comment-page-4/#comment-94225 Mon, 30 Nov 2020 09:29:57 +0000 http://savvygardening.com/?p=4130#comment-94225 I have sticky white cottony things on the underside of my Pothos leaves. I touch them and they aren’t a bug. Never the same shape. I wipe it off and it comes back. I originally had it on a indoor basil plant. Three that out. But now my Pothos is infested. Any thoughts?

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