The invention relates to a duckweed cleaner and a duckweed cleaning method. The duckweed cleaner comprises an overwater collecting mechanism, a processing mechanism and a remote control device. The overwater collecting mechanism is connected with the processing mechanism through a pipeline and conveys duckweeds and water into the processing mechanism for processing. The remote control device gives out operation instructions to control the overwater collecting mechanism to collect the duckweeds on a water area. The duckweed cleaner has the advantages that the duckweed cleaner is scientific in design, reasonable in structure, compact in device arrangement, low in cost, convenient to manufacture, simple to operate, convenient to mount and demount, convenient to transport, time-saving, labor-saving, high in work efficiency, and suitable for duckweed cleaning on different water areas, users do not need to enter water during operation, danger of manual duckweed cleaning is lowered, duckweed cleaning efficiency is increased, integration of intelligent duckweed cleaning and collecting is achieved, and the problems that traditional duckweed cleaning needs traction power of workers or mechanical ships and cleaning and collecting are difficult to separate.