[smoketrichs]

I started growing a few seeds on my balcony couple months back. Given them a few waterings with compost tea, and sprayed twice a few weeks apart with azamax and haven't seen any pests yet.

[Saltlife]

I have a plant out in woods

Something is knawing on branches just eating the skin
like a damn beaver would knawl around a tree

Anybody tell me what this might be

It started on lower branches and working its way up
Plant

[Vesnican]

Hi guys, does anyone know which kind of caterpillar is this one please? (central europe location)

[Vesnican]

They start to appear in September on buds, about 10 on each plant daily. I always picked them manually. Sometimes they decided to drill a hole in a bud and squat there. This was the problem, the bud was inside like rotten, but more dry. Everyday care made them disappear.

[Kygiacomo!!!]

Originally Posted by Vesnican

They start to appear in September on buds, about 10 on each plant daily. I always picked them manually. Sometimes they decided to drill a hole in a bud and squat there. This was the problem, the bud was inside like rotten, but more dry. Everyday care made them disappear.

get ur self some Spinosad and BT spray. the spinosad i will be using next year is called ConverseSC its 11.6% spinosad compared to captian jacks deadbrew is 0.5%. next year use neem or karanja oil all thur veg and the first 2 weeks in flower and that should take care of it. i will be using karanja oil/converseSc for veg weekly folair and then when flower comes i will use the same combo for the first 2 weeks and then switch just to ConverseSC and BT till around week 4 or 5 depending on how bad they are on the plants

[Vesnican]

Originally Posted by Kygiacomo!!!

get ur self some Spinosad and BT spray. the spinosad i will be using next year is called ConverseSC its 11.6% spinosad compared to captian jacks deadbrew is 0.5%. next year use neem or karanja oil all thur veg and the first 2 weeks in flower and that should take care of it. i will be using karanja oil/converseSc for veg weekly folair and then when flower comes i will use the same combo for the first 2 weeks and then switch just to ConverseSC and BT till around week 4 or 5 depending on how bad they are on the plants

Thank you Kygiacomo! I have to check whether those are sold in central Europe or will have to find something similar.

To be honest I was always afraid to spray anything straight on buds, but now I see that is common thing

[Kygiacomo!!!]

Originally Posted by Vesnican

Thank you Kygiacomo! I have to check whether those are sold in central Europe or will have to find something similar.

To be honest I was always afraid to spray anything straight on buds, but now I see that is common thing

i use to be scared to till bud rot wiped me out a year ago. the way i see it is its either spray for a couple weeks of something safe that is effective or take the chance and not spray and end up with moldy buds. As long as u not using some nasty chemical like eagle 20 etcetc and its a proven organic method that works then i say its all good.

[7 Springs Farm]

Originally Posted by Soilmonster

I've been learning a ton from these forums, you guys are awesome!! My friend has these little jerks nesting in alot of the lower buds of an outdoor grow and I can't find anything about them anywhere. I can't get this to link my photos but you should be able to see them in my profile. I'd greatly appreciate any help, there's some beautiful medicine in jeapardy >XD

This should link to photos

https://www.icmag.com/ic/album.php?albumid=62722

That is a Minute pirate bug, generally considered a beneficial insect. Adults and nymphs feed on insect eggs and small insects such as psyllids, thrips, mites, aphids, whiteflies, and small caterpillars. Beware, though, they also reportedly can bite humans as well.

[FarmerGiles]

Not sure if anyone has mentioned nemetodes or beneficial insects such as predatory wasps? Might be worth looking into for those who don't want to spray plants with chemicals or who are late on in flower where spraying may harm the buds.

In veg I alternate between neem and a food-safe insecticidal product called SB Invigorator and use diluted H2O2 in between to clean the leaves. Prior to growing I use three different types of nematodes and water them into the ground around the plants or in the pots. And finally I use beneficial insects, plus sticky traps to identify / reduce any pests and find this regime very effective. Outdoors beneficial some insects will and do fly away, but others, eg the slow release mite predators can be put directly on plants in pouches and preying mantis are territorial, so will often stay in the place they are hatched.

[MuricanWeedwolf]

Not sure if anyone suggested building bat houses? Bats not only eat insects that are a nuisance to humans (a small brown bat can devour up to 600 mosquitoes in an hour), but can provide significant agricultural pest control services. In one season, a typical colony of about 150 big brown bats in the Midwest eats 50,000 leafhoppers, 38,000 cucumber beetles, 16,000 June bugs, and 19,000 stink bugs not to mention thousands of moths such as adult cornborers, earworms, and cutworms.

For more information about bats and bat houses, visit https://www.batconn.org/