[valk]

I have some seedlings and seeds in a closet where the temps are high and so is the humidity. I dug up one of my seedlings to check on it, and as I turned the seed over to check the tap root, a tiny white worm looking thing scurried out of the seed pod. I've also noticed that my other containers (with seedlings in them) have a white powdery like dust on the top of the soil. I added a fan in the closet hoping that the dust was mold, what about the pest? Does that sound like a thrype?

[Growdoc]

must be a Thrip or a larve of some kind... any ways your gonna want some neem oil

Growdoc

[dHazed]

Adding a fan with mold in the room only helps spread it. Treat the plant first with sulfur or neem. Then work on moving the air.

Hello sounds like a fungus gnat larve to me ..There scary little clear wormie dudes with tiny black heads you have to have a good i to see them with out magnification..Use a neem drench to stop larva and molds..

take care
GreenFriend

type of soil mix you using???

sounds like you got a nasty batch of soil (stay away from the cheap heavy soils)
and the old stuff thats been sitting outside in the stores lot for months

I don't believe that you have thrips. The reason for that is I think I freaking have them all. I have tried bug bombs, organic solutions and neem oil. I can't get rid of these bitches. Anyway I have never seen them in worm/larvae form. I never had thrips until I started soil. Good luck on whatever you have.

Mo,

[Dandaweedman]

aren't thrips those tiny little black bugs that bite?
sort of oblong in shape?

Thrips vary in color but I have never seen Black ones. They do bite and can actually get on humans to, not likely tho. They do leave excrement on the under sides of your leafs that is black.

Mo,

no ,, it's not a thrip ,, thrips hide out in the tops of plants , where it is really hard to get to them & they burrow & eat there way threw the leaf

making something that looks like a tunnel ,,until they become fat enough & fall to the ground

what you may have is nematodes "soil worms" , total destruction for a plant

they make holes right where the stem & root's join ,( just under soil level ) the stems of plant's rot & then the plant flop's over & breaks ..

peace

Actually thrips don't make holes in your leafs. your leafs will have alot of tiny white specks all over them. The leafs actually look stripped. I will post up some pics of thrip damage. Not to disagree with you hallucinogen, but I have them.

Mo,