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Bug ID help needed
- Thread starter Swarm
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THRIPS, they can spread viruses.
TO CONTROL USE:
Amblydromalus limonicus (predatory mite)
Gaeolaelaps aculeifer (formerly known as Hypoaspis aculeifer)
(predatory mite)
Stratiolaelaps scimitus (formerly known as Hypoaspis miles)
(predatory mite)
Macrocheles robustulus (predatory mite)
Amblyseius swirskii (predatory mite)
Neoseiulus cucumeris (Formerly known as Amblyseius cucumeris)
(predatory mite)
Orius laevigatus (predatory bug)
Orius insidiosus (predatory bug)
Steinernema feltiae (entomopathogenic nematode)
http://www.koppert.com/pests/thrips/
Lacewings and ladybugs can also help control thrips. Ladybugs seem to prefer aphids if a choice.
Verticillium lecanii can be used in veg, it requires high humidity to work well.
-SamS
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You can get rid of them really easy with a product that contains Spinosad. Monterey Spinosad Organic Garden Insect Spray is what I used when I've had thrips. It only takes a couple treatments about a week apart. 3 if the infestation is bad. Always turn lights off for at least 3 hours after you finish spraying or your plants can burn. Also use a spreader like Coco Wet so it mixes properly and gets on the leaves. Thrips are pretty easy to get rid of compared to some other types of mites. I never have to stress over thrips.
I think you have 2 excellent people with tons of knowledge telling you it's thrips I would listen. Sam the skunkman has seen I am sure his fair share of many garden pest over his years in the industry I am sure he knows what he is talking about.
Snype also is a very knowledgable person as well.
U can also pick up captn jacks dead bug brew that is sold everywhere to wipe them out it also contains spinosad. What snipe suggested would most likely work faster because I think it contains a higher anout of active ingrediant spinosad.
Snype also is a very knowledgable person as well.
U can also pick up captn jacks dead bug brew that is sold everywhere to wipe them out it also contains spinosad. What snipe suggested would most likely work faster because I think it contains a higher anout of active ingrediant spinosad.
I'll admit that your pic looked kind of funny to to me at first. I think it looked weird because they are really so much smaller and the picture is so zoomed in on them. The color also looks much more like orange/yellow to me in person but the shape of your pics remind me more of thrips. The ones that I see are much lighter in color and I used to see them on the front and bottom of the leaves, unlike spider mites.
Look at what Thrips look like:
And the damage the do to your leaves:
Yeah the color and antenna looks different to me and the butt from images on the net. I have only seen them on the floor so far, never on a plant or in a pot but they are small so who knows. I see tiny sap excretions on the stems like orange hatched eggs or sap excretions. They have been around for a few months. I do keep everything clean with bleach etc. The only thing that keeps me from thinking thrips is i cant find them on plants or the markings.
Thanks for the help fellas
Thanks for the help fellas
Could be but you should find them in the soil when you water. If you dump a good amount of water in the soil or medium, you'll see lots of Springtials come to the top and start twitching.
Those bugs that you are finding on the floor might just be some type of bug that doesn't mess with your plants. That's what I suspect if you saw them on the floor like that. They may look small to you but small to me may be much smaller.
Those bugs that you are finding on the floor might just be some type of bug that doesn't mess with your plants. That's what I suspect if you saw them on the floor like that. They may look small to you but small to me may be much smaller.
Springtails will also jump when disturbed and they also move kinda fast.
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Run spinosad, thrips.
