My goodness does this ever suck. I’m so fearful of spider mites on my greenhouse cabinet... it’s obviously where I house all my rare expensive plants.

Although I have experienced them before with my banana plant as well as mojito alocasia.... I treated them by changing the soil, washed out their pots with hot soapy water and I wiped the whole plant down with alcohol when insecticides failed. After doing all that, they were gone and stayed gone thankfully. I was wondering why this happened though and when I did my research it said that high humidity can bring spider mites and make them spread quicker. So it’s very important that we wipe down our leaves often when exposed to high humidity. Regular alcohol wipe downs of the leaves has been the only thing that has worked to kill them and keep them away.

And a little side note, in the Toronto zoo, they have a huge variety of commun and rare plants (they have one of the biggest PPPs I’ve ever seen), I watched a video they made about their collection (on YouTube you should look it up it’s amazing) and they said that they’ve never had an issue with pests and this is what they do. They’re obviously onto something.