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Help! Name this bug! Also, avice on best treament.

dunkydunk

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Herborizer said:
Bought the Monterey spinosad. Sprayed everything. Going to water with mosquito dunks tomorrow.
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Do mosquito dunks work against thrips as well? I've become so tired of battling fungus gnats that I sprinkle out mosquito bits on every grow, and I no longer have any bug issues.

And Herbo, I'm sorry I dismissed your bugs as non-threatening at the beginning, I've never seen a picture of an adult thrip before.
 
Norkali

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mk6 said:
possibly root aphids... regardless... this shit Kills!! add it to your water and at about 10 mil a gal feed-m this 3 times n problem solved. note: it is systemic so dont take cuts for a 2/3 weeks, n dont feed any flowering plants that are to be harvested in 3/4 weeks.


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Damnit! This is what I had hoped wouldn't happen.....people starting to use this shit as a catch-all.

This shit is not intended to be used on edible crops, there is a reason is says: FOR OUTDOOR RESIDENTIAL USE ONLY

Wow, sure glad I started supplying my own cannabis before this practice came into play on the market....then again....god only knows how much residual Avid/Floramite/Eagle 20 I ingested over the years either from irresponsible growers...

Need an alternative? Mycotrol O - OMRI certified. & SNS 203
 
Stress_test

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Norkali said:
Damnit! This is what I had hoped wouldn't happen.....people starting to use this shit as a catch-all.

This shit is not intended to be used on edible crops, there is a reason is says: FOR OUTDOOR RESIDENTIAL USE ONLY

Wow, sure glad I started supplying my own cannabis before this practice came into play on the market....then again....god only knows how much residual Avid/Floramite/Eagle 20 I ingested over the years either from irresponsible growers...

Need an alternative? Mycotrol O - OMRI certified. & SNS 203
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Yeah I know... It just kills me when I see chemicals like that being used on plants people are going to ingest.

I offered an alternative in a previous post that would kill root aphids OR thrips without poisoning the plants and harvest.

But I don't have to smoke it either...
 
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Used organic Monterey Spinosad and Miskito dunks. Not a bug alive. I took the opportunity to tidy up my grow space to my somewhat anal standards as well. Thanks everyone for the help.
 
resinryder

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You'll need to spray them again, (personally I'd spray 2 more times), to kill off any new hatches. Better safe than sorry type thing.
 
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PuReKnOwLeDgE

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Spinosad drops them dead if it is thrips. For the posters above, bayers, floramite, eagle20, avid, forbid, can all be used if used correctly. Hitting stuff before flower is perfectly ethical. Maintaining larger sized grows with bug problems is not as easy as a small little cab with a few plants, the nukes must come out. I have everything you listed on my shelf, and I am not afraid to suit up and use it responsibly. I will use an organic treatment first of course, but only if it is 100% effective. I don't mess with control around here, I mess with annihilation, steady production of medicine depends on it.

I had my first encounter with thrips recently, and one application of spinosad knocked them dead. IMO the easiest bug to deal with ever.
 
CalcioErba2004

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PuReKnOwLeDgE said:
Spinosad drops them dead if it is thrips. For the posters above, bayers, floramite, eagle20, avid, forbid, can all be used if used correctly. Hitting stuff before flower is perfectly ethical. Maintaining larger sized grows with bug problems is not as easy as a small little cab with a few plants, the nukes must come out. I have everything you listed on my shelf, and I am not afraid to suit up and use it responsibly. I will use an organic treatment first of course, but only if it is 100% effective. I don't mess with control around here, I mess with annihilation, steady production of medicine depends on it.

I had my first encounter with thrips recently, and one application of spinosad knocked them dead. IMO the easiest bug to deal with ever.
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Exactly, I have moms, cuts and plants going into flower. i cannot afford to have an infestation. It would cost me more time, money and possibly yield. I have a hundred cuts that go out to patients every week. I cannot afford to have an infected cut go out and mess up someone elses garden. I have a rep to uphold. I use the Bayer stuff only on my moms and not on a regular basis. Like Pure said, its a nuke and I don't have time to be messing with anything and experimenting with different stuff. The bayer stuff works. For flower I have Monterey Take Out and I don't spray after the 2nd week of flower.

An ounce of prevention is worth pound of cure. If you keep your rooms clean and sterile and treat all incoming plants and quarantine them before putting them in your garden, in theory you should never get bugs. They still make it in there somehow but you cut the chances down substantially.
 
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HighDesertJoe said:
I'm thinking Spring tail species, I don't remember seeing Thrips with such big antennas..Good Luck
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Do springtails also have little green ones smaller than mites on the underside of leaves? I guess I could of had springtails AND thrips.

I did have the weird shiny sluglike trail on some leaves as well.
 
ganja_hasi

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the bugs on the picks of the first posting aren't any Thrips for sure..1000%...have you ever
seen some Thrips Herborizer??
not that I really care, but if you already know what the bug is, why are you asking for help??
 
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ganja_hasi said:
the bugs on the picks of the first posting aren't any Thrips for sure..1000%...have you ever
seen some Thrips Herborizer??
not that I really care, but if you already know what the bug is, why are you asking for help??
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Thanks for the feedback. Maybe I had two different bugs, I don't know.

I have never seen thrips in real life, unless some of these are thrips.

I didn't already know what the bug is. This is why I made the thread. I got some great feedback and did a lot of research. I believed because I found tiny green, thin but long, bugs on the leaves and saw the shiny trails on the leaves that these were thrips. My assessment could be wrong, who knows. They do look like those silver tails too.

The Monterey spinosad spray did kill them swiftly though. I am glad for that.
 
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northstate

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Tiny and green, yellow or black. Underside and/or top of leaf damage Most definately thrips. Crafty little bastards they hide in veins or creases when you try and smash em. With the silvery looking shiny trails and itty bitty black specks of thrip shit.
Hit them one more time just to be sure and good luck in the battle! This can be War sometimes. NS
 
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