Help with pest ID pics?

gettogro said:

thanks guys,
Russet mites indeed.
Treatment underway

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gettogro said:

Hi, I have been battling these little bugs. I thought they were thrips larvae and treated them with Monterays spinosad spray. After a couple treatments they are still alive and kicking. Now after a closer look I think they are too small to be thrips, I cant seem to ID them in any of the online bug threads or pics. Usually with this usb microscope I can tell what they are pretty clearly but I cant tell. Maybe someone here could give me a positive ID help?

I just hit them with azamax to see if that will kill them but it would be nice to know what Im fighting.
They look like they might be whitefly larvae but I dont know. I can't find any bugs further along in the life cycle to get a better ID. nothing flying around in the garden and these are not visible by the naked eye.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

thanks

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TanzanianMagic said:

Close up, they don't look so fiersome.

Check out my all purpose insect killing spray - organically approved, although not completely organic:

- neem oil (as directed)
- liquid dish soap (Castille if you can get it/make it, just enough to dissolve the neem oil into water)
- pyrethrin (10 drops to a quart)

This combination will: dessicate any soft bodied insects and larvae; suffocate them with oil; paralyze their nervous system; and the ones that survive find that the neem is an anti-feedant that fills their stomachs with bubblegum, so they stop eating.

The Pyrethrin is naturally derived from chrysanthemums, and breaks down into innocuous substances in 7 days.

I grow outdoors, with lots of organic material for insects to be distracted by. I rarely used this spray, and this year haven't sprayed anything at all - just manually removed insects from the plants. As long as the plants keep growing, I'm not doing anything. However I've had them all - spider mites, thrips, aphids, caterpillars, mildew.

Outdoors, they just fade away when the weather changes. Right now I have an ant explosion, however they're not bothering the plants.

I've planted some small flower plants and they attract hover flies, wasps, bees, which have pretty voracious insect killing larvae themselves. So maybe that's helping a littte too. And there are lots of spiders.

And, I'm growing in pots with a water reservoir, a grid to keep everything out of the reservoir, growrocks on top of the grid, then supersoil, light soil, and mulch of hemp bedding. Under the mulch I place a sliced banana and oat flakes, maybe once every 2 weeks to a month, to feed the fungi in the soil and the plant, more than just the sugars they get from the plant's roots. Fungi want to be fed carbon and calories.

When fungi grow throughout the plant (endophytes or endophytic fungi), they also act as an anti-feedant to insects, and they produce penicillin which slows mildew, botrytis, etc.

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