Your result
Isolate it todayMost likely: a pest infestation
What is going on
Webbing with speckled leaves is spider mites. White cottony fuzz in the leaf joints is mealybugs. Small brown bumps with a sticky film under them are scale, and the stickiness is their honeydew. All three drink sap, all three spread to whatever is standing nearby, and all three multiply fastest in exactly the warm indoor conditions we have here most of the year.
Do this first
Move it away from your other plants before you do anything else.
- 1 Isolate the plant in another room. This matters more than the treatment does.
- 2 Take it to a sink or shower and rinse both sides of every leaf with room-temperature water to knock down the population.
- 3 Treat the whole plant, undersides included, with insecticidal soap or horticultural oil, following the label rate exactly.
- 4 Repeat every five to seven days for at least three rounds. One treatment never clears an infestation, because the eggs hatch after it.
- 5 Check every plant that was within arm’s reach of this one.
How you will know it worked: No new webbing or fuzz after three rounds means you got ahead of it. If it keeps coming back, the source is usually a neighboring plant that was never treated.
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