What's eating my pilea glauca 'aquamarine' (grey baby tears)?

Pilea glauca 'Aquamarine' is most vulnerable to spider mites, which love its delicate foliage in warm, dry rooms. Fungus gnats often exploit moist soil, and mealybugs may hide in dense trailing stems. Inspect weekly — the tiny, dense leaves make early detection tricky.

Tiny yellow or bronze stippling on leaves, fine webbing between stems, leaf drop Increase humidity, shower the plant to dislodge mites, apply insecticidal soap or diluted neem oil every 5–7 days

Larvae chew fine roots; adults emerge from soil and hover around the plant Let the top layer of compost dry before watering; use yellow sticky traps; apply Bti soil drench

White waxy fluff in stem joints; sticky honeydew that attracts sooty mould Remove with alcohol-dipped cotton swab; spray with insecticidal soap or neem oil; isolate the plant