lance
Class 5 Nepenthes hoarder
Hello Everyone.
Recently I saw weird bite marks on one of my highland Nepenthes. I am horrible when it comes to IDing pests so I thought I'd ask what y'all think of this. The plant has been quarantined, but I'm still very worried. About a month ago I saw the same symptoms on my lowland Nepenthes but I was unable to find out what it was. I sprayed the lowlanders with 50/50 water alcohol to rid of whatever it was which seemed to work until they came back about a month later. Maybe a second generation of pests was able to mature? Does anyone have an idea as to what these are and how I could eliminate them? At first I thought it was mites, but I have not seen any when I tap the leaves onto a paper slit. They appear to spread like wildfire and I don't want to take any chances of them getting to the rest of my highland plants. The symptoms are as so: strange bite marks in the new leaves of the plants which look like worts/pimples from the upper sides of the leaves, deformed pitchers and pale leaves that are curled up abnormally when opening.
Here are some pictures of the infected plant:
The upper side of the bite marks which have formed like worts.
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Underside where the bite marks appear to have been bitten
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Paleness of the newest leaf
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Any ideas to what it is and how I could treat it? I have not seen any webs so I can confirm that these aren't spider mites.
Recently I saw weird bite marks on one of my highland Nepenthes. I am horrible when it comes to IDing pests so I thought I'd ask what y'all think of this. The plant has been quarantined, but I'm still very worried. About a month ago I saw the same symptoms on my lowland Nepenthes but I was unable to find out what it was. I sprayed the lowlanders with 50/50 water alcohol to rid of whatever it was which seemed to work until they came back about a month later. Maybe a second generation of pests was able to mature? Does anyone have an idea as to what these are and how I could eliminate them? At first I thought it was mites, but I have not seen any when I tap the leaves onto a paper slit. They appear to spread like wildfire and I don't want to take any chances of them getting to the rest of my highland plants. The symptoms are as so: strange bite marks in the new leaves of the plants which look like worts/pimples from the upper sides of the leaves, deformed pitchers and pale leaves that are curled up abnormally when opening.
Here are some pictures of the infected plant:
The upper side of the bite marks which have formed like worts.
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Underside where the bite marks appear to have been bitten
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Paleness of the newest leaf
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Any ideas to what it is and how I could treat it? I have not seen any webs so I can confirm that these aren't spider mites.