NEED 4 SEED
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Hello people, recently I discovered these 1-3 mm long, black bugs around my plants. I saw them earlier in my life, sometimes crawling over the walls in hundreds and they're supposed to be called thunderbugs. Then I found out that these are some kind of thrips. I saw them on the soil and around the pots but never on plants. Are they beneficial or pests? Could it be they keep the fungus gnats in check (which seem to have problems building a successful population recently)?
Here's a pic of one of them, I taped it.
Here's a pic of one of them, I taped it.