Question is, are those eggs alive or dead?
not sure what eggs your talking about in partiuclar retro...
BUT
here is the deal on the eggs in my case,
while waiting to get the avid and forbid I tried other things like Volck oil and that's an ovacide and kills mites but not Broads.
so I think the eggs were dead before i applied avid.
reading on the avid flyer that came with it, the broads have a 21 day reproductive cycle so any new hatchlings should get done in by the 30 days residuals in the avid. they key word here is *should*
after 30 days i hit em again but with forbid.
forbid has an ovacide in it I'm nearly sure.
they all seemed to clear up but two moths later they resurfaced in the veg room again,
not very bad but it doesn't take long and they are teeming.,
they can live on dead leaf material s a few may have survived in the room in general.
I sprayed the floors, carpets base boards and walls 4ft up and also the entrances any intake screens, everything!
we'll see if they come back again but I now spray as I described above in early veg and when i flip into 12/12 proactively,
between harvests I spray the room down and bomb it twice over a few days.
in the long run being consistently proactive is the only way to really beat
these spawn of satan!
The 64,0000$ question....Do you still have broad mites..? How did you get rid of them...? I'm a very clean organic dude but if I get them, I want to know how to destroy them completely. I don't care If I have to use Lead based paint, Nuclear isotopes, DDT, Burn my house down....?
I think they're gone peacemonger
haven't seen any for 3 months now.
but I will still keep spraying now regardless, once you get stung like i did and lose *over *a years worth of grows to thee evil bastards you'll feel different, just like i shudder just seeing the egg sacs in the scope knowing they are dead
and somewhere in this thread, i'm sure there is a post with a link to a university/college or state AG extension web site on braod mites that lists tons of info on them,
one on eradication methods mentioned they are very sensitive to heat and that watter at something like 105 or 115 degrees kills them dead!, a member said he dunked his small infested plants in water at the proper temps and... Success!!!
I thought of getting a heat gun used to strip paint and quickly go over the foliage and see how that would work.
lots easier than spraying each plant
