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small pale greenish white worms in soil of my snake plant?
i'm new to keeping plants, and i have a snake plant that i like very much. today i was admiring it and i noticed a small pale greenish white worm about a centimeter long on the soil. my question is do these worms have a symbiotic or parasitic relationship with my plant? i played it safe and i removed the worm and put it outside.
so then just a minute ago, i was admiring my plant some more, and i look in the soil, and i see more of these little worms! i can count like 5 of them on the soil, and who knows how many are buried.
so my question is if they are good for my plant or bad. and if they are bad what i should do to kill them and ensure the health of my plant. at this point my plant still appears very healthy and the leaves have not been eaten or anything. if i do need to kill these worms i would prefer a nice organic pesticide so if you have any recommendations of one that can be found at a garden center that would be good too. thanks!
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- GloryLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
I don't know of any good use for any bugs in my houseplants.
I know snake plants don't need to be over watered but I prefer this to transplanting the whole plant.
It may sound extreme but this is how I deal with this problem.
Fill a bucket or the sink with tepid water (not hot not cold), enough to cover the pot, put in a few drops of dish detergent. Slowly submerge the plant into the water until the pot is completely covered in the water.
Leave it about 1/2 hour. It should kill the bugs and even if it doesn't they won't like it and will leave.Take it out of the water and let it dry out at lease a week, or more then go back to the usual watering routine.
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- ?Lv 44 years ago
i'm assuming the white worms are fairly small white beetle larvae, laid there via the mummy beetle for them to banquet on roots and leaves of vegetation. the best element is to interchange the soil, ie scrape away what you could, and then upload some neem oil around the vegetation. Neem is organic and organic stuff, yet once you desire to pass chemical, prepare some Sevin. determine you moist the soil nicely as those larvae could be in that soil fantastically deeply.
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- Anonymous5 years ago
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