The white paper method is very simple. It's useful for finding pests that are sometimes difficult to see with the naked eye - thrips, aphids, spider mites...⠀ ⠀ ⠀
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After tapping, look at the white sheet. Pests will be easier to spot on a white paper than on plants. Look for any movement on the paper and then you can then use a macro lens or a microscope to identify the pest. Even if you don't see movement, you might still find pest eggs. Look at everything on the paper under a macro lens.⠀ ⠀
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If you don't find anything, try shaking other stems/leaves and try shaking harder, to make sure you didn't miss anything.⠀
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Note this method isn't great for all pests. Usually, you won't be able to get mealybugs and scale to fall off with a simple tap & shake. But this is not meant for them anyway, as they are easily visible to the naked eye. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀
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For the sake of full transparency, the SOP didn't have any pests. After shaking the strings, there were no pests on the paper. There is another reason for the SOP dying, but that is the topic of another video. Since there were no pests on it, I applied the same technique on my alocasia, which is where the insect you saw in the video came from. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀
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But just because my SOP didn't have any pests, it doesn't make this technique any less useful. It helped me feel more confident that there were no pests on the SOP. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀
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Note that just because you didn't see any pests doesn't mean there aren't any. There could still be root pests in the soil, or root diseases. But this is still a great method to eliminate the existence of some pests.⠀
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PRODUCTS I USE TO GET RID OF PESTS:
➡️ [ Ссылка ] - bottle sprayer, the most natural method, just wash the pests off your plants
➡️ [ Ссылка ] - neem oil
➡️ [ Ссылка ] - insecticidal soap
➡️ [ Ссылка ] - horticultural oil
➡️ [ Ссылка ] - systemic insecticide (keeps you pest free for a full year)
➡️ [ Ссылка ] - nematodes
➡️ [ Ссылка ] - hydrogen peroxide
➡️ [ Ссылка ] - diatomaceous earth
➡️ [ Ссылка ] - Mosquito Bits for fungus gnats (work wonders in combination with yellow sticky notes)
➡️ [ Ссылка ] - yellow sticky notes

HOW TO DIAGNOSE PESTS
➡️ [ Ссылка ] - Blips lenses, attach to your cell phone and examine your plants
➡️ [ Ссылка ] - an excellent microscope with 1,000x magnification, use it with your computer or phone

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