What are some indoor plant parasites?

Answer by  champaign9497 (11977)

The biggest indoor plant pests are spider mites and aphids. If your plants have spider mites you have a huge problem and it takes forever to get rid of them and you need help from a green house if it's aphids you need to go buy yourself some ladybugs and put them on the plants aphids are their diet.

Answer by  BoBanda (24)

There are many indoor plant pests. Here are some common ones: whitefly, predator mites, mealybug destroyer, mealybug parasite, green lacewings, aphids.

Answer by  dwammer (710)

Aphids, spider mites, mealy bugs, and thrips are all kinds of parasites that may infest your indoor house plants. It may prove challenging to get rid of them but usually spraying an insecticidal soap will solve the problem. In severe cases, you may need to just dispose of the plant.

Answer by  warren37676 (57)

Aphids, such as the green peach aphid, and whiteflies, such as the greenhouse whitefly, are very common. Other intruders are thrips, springtails, shore flies, spider mites, broad mites, and eriophyid mites, fungus gnats and mealybugs, brown soft scale, and hemispherical scale.

Answer by  Dana46 (2345)

Mealy bugs, fungus gnat, white fly, scale, and various mites are all typical parasites that attack indoor plants and can spread from one to the other.

Answer by  bovineovine (112)

Mealy bugs, Gnats, Mites, Scales, Aphids, Thrips, White Flies, House Flies, spiders (though they dont do much harm. They actually do good!!! ) Each pest causes its own little issues with the plants but most can be eliminated using and indoor plant pest spray.

Answer by  mahes (32209)

The key to eliminating scale is to treat even the ones that you cannot see. That means thoroughly drenching all leaf and stem surfaces until they are dripping wet. It is also best if you repeat this treatment all over again in 5 to 7 days to catch any crawlers that you missed the first time.

Answer by  Redhdz (527)

Mealybugs, Aphids and Whiteflies are the ones I have problems with. I use alcohol in a sprayer but you have to test the plant leafs first to make sure it won't burn the leaves. I also use soapy water for the aphids which seems to work if the alcohol doesn't.

Answer by  Bobinski (1652)

One of the worse parasites is the mealbug. They suck the sap out of the plant. Whiteflies are small flying insects. They are found on the underside of the leaves. Red spiders weave webs between the stems; found underneath the leaves. Greenflies suck the sap off young buds or shoots.

Answer by  mahavin (589)

The indoor plant parasites gets all the needs from the plants for its survival. Some of the indoor plant parasites are: tiny probes, jade plants and hi linda plants. This type parasites depends on the host plants which are grown in home and also in indoor areas of office decorations.