He says, "If your fiddle-leaf fig has fine webbing on the leaves, as well as mites and eggs on the undersides of leaves, it's likely to be red spider mites. They thrive in dry environments ...

If houseplants were celebrities, the fiddle leaf fig would undoubtedly be the A-lister ... face common houseplant invaders like spider mites, scale insects, and mealy bugs. Prevention is key ...

This will keep down scales and mites and things that come out ... last week. And so on our fig trees, we have what only a few days ago was a nice green, new growth, as far as the fig is concerned.