[metsäkana]

https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/4227517/1943_21158y.pdf


i would like to know what damage these do to cannabis so few pictures. maybe they feed roots


https://ag.umass.edu/greenhouse-floriculture/fact-sheets/bulb-mites


The female may live for about a month

lol


Hypoaspis aculeifer


According to Raymond Cloyd, Kansas State University, bulb mite populations may be suppressed by using the soil-dwelling predatory mite Hypoaspis aculeifer, which is commercially available. The nymph and adult stages of H. aculeifer feed on all life stages of R. echinopus. However, immatures (larvae and nymphs) and adults prefer to feed on the immature stages of R. echinopus, not the adults. The ability of H. aculeifer to suppress bulb mites depends on level of infestation and exposure to the predatory mite. Bulb mites may be located in the inner folds (layers) of bulbs, which may be more difficult for the predatory mite to locate.








Info from Koppert website, article is from October 2012:

Koppert will be relaunching the soil-dwelling predatory mite Hypoaspis aculeifer onto the market at the end of this year. Thanks to a greatly improved production method, we are now once again able to supply this very effective natural enemy. The reintroduction of this predatory mite allows Koppert to offer the market a full range of subterranean natural enemies of pests including thrips, sciarid flies and the bulb mite.
Hypoaspis aculeifer (brand name Entomite-A) combats thrips and sciarid flies and is also very effective in dealing with bulb mites. The production of this soil-dwelling predatory mite is a complex process. Following extensive research, Koppert has succeeded in improving the production method to such an extent that efficient production and reliable supply are now possible.


The packaging has also been improved. Koppert supplies the product in a newly-developed cardboard cylinder packaging (containing 50,000 predatory mites) using only vermiculite as a carrier material. The company has switched to this packaging material because it guarantees the quality of the mites better and for longer, and the population remains at optimum levels. Hypoaspis aculeifer also searches for its prey in the deeper layers of the soil.

Entomite-M In addition to Hypoaspis aculeifer, for the purposes of the subterranean combating of pests Koppert also has the soil-dwelling predatory mites Hypoaspis miles and Macrocheles robustulus available.
Hypoaspis miles (brand name Entomite-M) is a powerful natural enemy of sciarid flies and has a strong side effect on Duponchelia fovealis. Springtails, thrips pupae, and nematodes are also on its menu. Hypoaspis miles is now also supplied in a new cardboard cylinder containing 50,000 beneficials, and in a bottle containing 10,000 beneficials with a mixture of vermiculite and peat as a carrier material.
Compared with Hypoaspis aculeifer, Hypoaspis miles remains closer to the soil surface.


Macro-Mite Of all the subterranean beneficials, Macrocheles robustulus (Macro-Mite) has the broadest effects, tackling thrips pupae, the eggs, larvae, and pupae of the sciarid fly, and white worms (important in Phalaenopsis). It also preys on the eggs of Duponchelia fovealis, the eggs of the cabbage fly, and other insects and nematodes. Koppert supplies Macro-Mite in a cardboard cylinder (containing 50,000 mites), with vermiculite as a carrier material. Like Hypoaspis aculeifer, Macrocheles robustulus can be found in the deeper layers of the soil. Its population responds very quickly to pests in the soil.
With Hypoaspis aculeifer, Hypoaspis miles and Macrocheles robustulus, Koppert now offers a full range of natural enemies of soil infestations with even better quality thanks to the cardboard cylinder packaging.


New name Because of new taxonomic insights, the Latin names of the two Entomite products will be changed in the near future. Hypoaspis aculeifer (Entomite-A) will be renamed to Gaeolaelaps aculeifer and Hypoaspis miles (Entomite-M) to Stratiolaelaps scimitus. It is a name change only, the mites themselves are unchanged.

[metsäkana]

here you maybe can see how small they are

still could find some.. fuck these are worst bug ever.

that first picture is with 55mm macro and 45x loop and other is zoomed in with pictureprogram

i still dont know how that first picture got so good! its impossible to get good video

[troutman]

Just get the predators before you go blind.

[metsäkana]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscorpion

Found this little helper to day guarding rest of water glasses!

hope he bring in some back up

those mites are 1 or 2 lines size of this guys butt lol

[BMG]

Damn that sucks bro! This is one of the reasons I switched to Coco coir!

[metsäkana]

i think you can have these with coco as well.. you just need 1 or 2 in your grow room


im not sure could they be mould mite they are kind o similar looking but not sure. pretty sure they are bulbs




https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268156278_Molecular_identifica tion_and_phylogenetic_analysis _of_economically_important_aca roid_mites_Acari_Astigmata_Aca roidea_in_Korea



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acaridae

this is the hairbutt family for sure

[metsäkana]

I THINK ITS POSSIBLE THAT THESE CAME WITH GARLIC INFECTED WITH BULB MITE EGGS AND I SPRAYD GARLIC TO APHID PROBLEM IN SEED PROJECTED THAT GOT OUTDOOR PLANTS INDOOR.

DO NOT USE GARLIC SPRAY IF YOU DONT WANT THESE OR MAYBE YOU CAN EXTRA HEAT IT WITH WATER.

[metsäkana]

Seems like best killer for these is Hypoaspis (Gaeolaelaps) aculeifer it will hunt deep in soil,
hypoaspis miles will only hunt top of soil.

this is maybe why miles is not so good controller for these

[metsäkana]

i bought aculeifer+miles+nematodes lets bomb the shit out of these

i saw some Lasius niger on my garden i think they eat mites too if not anything other is avaible im just not sure if they attack to benificials too maybe i need some cinnomon lines everywhere

'' Lasius niger also feed on insects and spiders, and other small invertebrates.''

yes they use aphids as cows but if there is no aphids :P

Organic BioControl: Beauveria bassiana (BioWorks Mycotrol -O, OMRI listed) is a fungus which infects insects with a disease known as the white muscadine. When spores of this fungus come in contact with the cuticle (skin) of susceptible insects, they germinate and grow directly through the cuticle to the inner body of their host. The fungus proliferates throughout the insect's body, producing toxins and draining the insect of nutrients, eventually killing it.

this could be used too maybe? i dont know if its approved where i live..

[bigblue72]

they look a lot like the ones I have seen pure white with a hairy ass