what is this insect?? pics
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Root Aphids....Do yourself a favor and throw away those plants...nuke your spot with Bug Bombs and reset
Looks like Springtails ( Collembola sp. ) to me.
Won't do any harm but their presence might mean there is too much standing water in your medium.
Won't do any harm but their presence might mean there is too much standing water in your medium.
HerbalToker
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LOl thats f ucked up lookin.
ive just found these on 3 clones in my m8s , seems theres conflicting opinions on what these are, could anyone confirm exactly what they are? what causes them to be there? , and what to do to get rid of them?
my friend has 6 cali o just repotted into 10 ltr pots, the 3 clones i speak of were sitting nxt to his big girls, can these effect the plants in the 10 ltr pots??
thanks in advance icmaggers!!
my friend has 6 cali o just repotted into 10 ltr pots, the 3 clones i speak of were sitting nxt to his big girls, can these effect the plants in the 10 ltr pots??
thanks in advance icmaggers!!
Blazin Red
New member
They are def. not root aphids because I have them right now. Strangest bugs I have ever seen!
You have strippers in the growroom recently? It happens bro 
That front pair of appendages are quite long. In your original photos they are turned backwards in an antenna-ish way, but your newer photos show them in a position you'd expect for front legs. If they're legs then it looks like this critter has eight legs total, so it's not an insect. Probably something in the Arachnid group, spiders, ticks, mites. They are also lacking the three segmented bodies of insects. I think it's some kind of mite. There are lots of different kinds of mites. Many are not harmful to your plants. Some businesses sell predatory mites for organic growers. The long front legs might be an adaptation for grasping prey. If the clones were purchased then these could be beneficial mites which were introduced to help control pests. I've seen sites which sell them having photos.
Whoa, just googled mite images. Think I'll wash my pillow cases.
Whoa, just googled mite images. Think I'll wash my pillow cases.
they do look like some sort of spider... do you have any visible damage to your plants that may have been caused by them?
Amblyseius
Amblyseius
I think your critters might be predatory mite in the genus Amblyseius. They are sold for the control of thrips.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/album.php?albumid=28418
I've never uploaded photos here so I'm not sure this will work, so here's a link to the google images search results page where I got the image.
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&...1&q=Amblyseius&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=
Amblyseius
I think your critters might be predatory mite in the genus Amblyseius. They are sold for the control of thrips.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/album.php?albumid=28418
I've never uploaded photos here so I'm not sure this will work, so here's a link to the google images search results page where I got the image.
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&...1&q=Amblyseius&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=
good eyes. I agree, these are some sort of mite.
my m8s dont look like any of them, they are like a little worm shape , same colour but more like a little cattapiller or worm
