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7 Common Indoor Plant Pests (& How to Kill them)

The most common indoor plant pests do varying degrees of damage to our houseplants. sometimes they can do a LOT of damage to our houseplants. Anyway, Who wants nasty bugs in the house? They are ugly, creepy and annoying to deal with. We complied our complete list of the most common indoor pests and how …

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Scale on Plants-Identification and Eradication

Think you have scales on plants? Learn how to identify and get rid of scale bugs. Scale are sucking pests like mealy bugs, thrips, aphids and whitefly. In fact, white scale pests can look much like mealy bugs (a relative). Scale, like other sucking insects, secretes a sticky honey dew onto your plants. Grey sooty …

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How to get Rid of Whiteflies on Plants

Whiteflies on plants are common garden, greenhouse and houseplant pests. These plant sucking insects are closely related to aphids, mealybugs and scale. Learn How to get rid of whiteflies in this post. These are not true flies. However they do fly a small distance. If you knock a plant heavily infested with whitefly you will …

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How to Use Hydrogen Peroxide For plants

Why use Hydrogen peroxide for plants? This common household first aid and cleaning agent is also AMAZINGLY helpful for plants. It benefits both garden and houseplants. But in this post we focus on your houseplants. What is hydrogen Peroxide? Just regular ole water. Plus ONE extra molecule of oxygen. The chemical formulation is H2O2. It’s …

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How to Get Rid Of Thrips On Houseplants

Get rid of Thrips on houseplants. Learn how to identify and kill Thrips. Keep them gone with proper plant management techniques. This post has information on Thrips and methods of Thrip eradication on houseplants. Thrips are a sucking pest like aphids, mealy bugs and spider mites. The leaf damage from these sucking pests is often …

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