What's eating my alocasia chantrieri?

Alocasia × chantrieri is a compact hybrid tropical aroid grown as a houseplant. It shares the standard indoor aroid pest profile — spider mites are most common in warm, dry rooms, while mealybugs shelter in the dense petiole joints. Thrips can mar its handsome dark foliage. High humidity and clean foliage are the best defenses.

Pale speckling across the leaf surface; leaf undersides show fine webbing as the population grows Rinse leaves, maintain humidity at 60%+, and treat with diluted neem oil or insecticidal soap every 7 days.

Fluffy white wax at petiole bases and in leaf axils; affected growth slows and yellows Apply isopropyl alcohol to colonies with a swab, then spray with neem oil weekly for four weeks.

Silver or bronze streaks on new foliage; distorted unfurling leaves Isolate the plant, remove the worst leaves, and apply spinosad spray every 5–7 days for three treatments.