Help - what animals are in my peace lily?
Hello JP
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Hello all
I'm a complete novice when it comes to plants but have discovered some kind of animal making a home in my peace lily. Does anyone know what these are and how I can get rid of them?
The first picture is the tub I keep my peace lily in with little white specks in it. The bottom picture is as close up a zoom as I can get without going too fuzzy. A google has led us to a few different animals like springtails or mealybugs but neither seem exactly right.
They don't seem to actually be harming the plant but they come back time and time again despite a re-pot roughly every year. I'm very fond of my peace lily - it's been with me since 2007 and is my only plant - so I'd hate the thought that something's eating away at it!
Any help or advice would be great please...!
Thanks
JP
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More googling suggests they could be whitefly, however we've never actually seen them fly and they only seem to live on the plant's soil rather than the leaves...
They are the coverings from the seeds which fall from the flowers so nothing to worry about at all. The actuals seeds are black in colour. See this photo:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nycbone/9337931253/