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Fungus gnats or WINGED ROOT APHIDS???
- Thread starter spleebale
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No, get Spinosad for your aphid problem. It is organic and will not make you sick. Yes it will work.
R.Fortune
Redeyed Jedi
New member
I already have Bayer Tree and Shrub from previous battles with aphids. It doesn't make me sick and it works. I am not looking for other options, I am looking for advice on the earliest it can be applied.
Redeyed Jedi
New member
They were just planted 3 days ago and the roots are barely coming from the rockwool to the perlite. Would you recommend 5 mL per gal or more?
swiftyballs
New member
Could you give some info on this please? I would much rather use this than Merit. Much Thanks
Is this a aphid ? and how do I treat it, I'm 100 % unwilling to use anything poisonous, was reading on Botanigard ES and Og biowar anyone have experience with either and will it work ? I'm using coco and hand feed. please help I can't afford to move and I can't loose a crop
Go by label instructions....
Impossible to tell from the picture. You should see lots of them if they are there.
there are lots of them,that's the picture I could get, i'll try to get a better one.
+1 on the neem oil!
I didn't grab any pics when I had my outbreak, but after a spray down with neem and a light soil drench my table was covered with corpses!
Plus it wipes out the Borg aka spider mites too!
I didn't grab any pics when I had my outbreak, but after a spray down with neem and a light soil drench my table was covered with corpses!
Plus it wipes out the Borg aka spider mites too!
Are these root aphids? I got'em all up in my soil. Tons and tons of them.
There is another bug also in there with them but I have not managed to snap pics of them yet. They have longer spear shaped bodies, are darker colored, and also crawl around in the soil. Much faster though.
I can't identify if they look like the pics of the winged root aphids at the beginning of this thread because they are too small to get a real good look at.
There is another bug also in there with them but I have not managed to snap pics of them yet. They have longer spear shaped bodies, are darker colored, and also crawl around in the soil. Much faster though.
I can't identify if they look like the pics of the winged root aphids at the beginning of this thread because they are too small to get a real good look at.
SirSteely
Member
YEP those loook like Hynoaspis miles bugs.......I thought they were root aphids when I had them and I believe that they came in my soil. They are a benificial bug and they feed on fungus gnat larvae.Heres a thread on it with pics
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=268879
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=268879
Kind of hard for me to tell from the photos if they have 8 legs or 6 legs and 2 antennae. Mites have 8, insects 6.
You say you have large numbers. If they are RA's, your plants' foliage would be seriously suffering, and you'd have dark roots. Good luck. -granger
You say you have large numbers. If they are RA's, your plants' foliage would be seriously suffering, and you'd have dark roots. Good luck. -granger
FunkJungle
Member
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Thanks they do look similar. The only thing though is I don't have fungus gnats in my room. Like I said there are those other bugs in the coco but they stay in there and don't fly.
Also I am seeing some strange things going on with my foliage. Some of my leaves are twisting to the side like as if they were mutants, yellowing, stunted growth. Looks like deficiencies. In flower some of my bottom leaves are starting to corrode sort of, and turn yellow. I do have some brown roots also.
It could have been a ph thing because I checked my pen recently and it was off a bit so I recalibrated it, but it just seems odd.
I'm gonna try to get some pics of the other bugs in there.
Also I am seeing some strange things going on with my foliage. Some of my leaves are twisting to the side like as if they were mutants, yellowing, stunted growth. Looks like deficiencies. In flower some of my bottom leaves are starting to corrode sort of, and turn yellow. I do have some brown roots also.
It could have been a ph thing because I checked my pen recently and it was off a bit so I recalibrated it, but it just seems odd.
I'm gonna try to get some pics of the other bugs in there.
