Spider mites or something else?
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OldMedUser
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Looks like an aphid or a different type of spider mite than the ones plaguing me. Spider mites generally have a couple spots on them plus dark eyes so I'm pretty sure that's an aphid.
Insecticidal soap will get rid of them. I like the Safer's End All with a dash of neem or canola oil. 7 - 10ml/L of either oil added to whatever the mix your bug spray is. I get the 500ml concentrate that will make 10L for the price of 1L of the premixed stuff.
Get rid of them before flowering to save yourself a lot of grief. Trade you my mites for your aphids!
Insecticidal soap will get rid of them. I like the Safer's End All with a dash of neem or canola oil. 7 - 10ml/L of either oil added to whatever the mix your bug spray is. I get the 500ml concentrate that will make 10L for the price of 1L of the premixed stuff.
Get rid of them before flowering to save yourself a lot of grief. Trade you my mites for your aphids!
My plants seem healthy and there are very few of these but i was hoping it wasnt somethi g worse like Broad mites or something.
I already use neem as an amendment in the soil and as a foliar spray along with the rest of the line from mountain organics botanicals.
Will try the insecticidal soap tho!
I already use neem as an amendment in the soil and as a foliar spray along with the rest of the line from mountain organics botanicals.
Will try the insecticidal soap tho!
OldMedUser
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Soap is a decent way to kill most bugs. Non-toxic but if sprayed on buds they will taste like soap when you smoke them. A lot of sprays use canola oil as the main ingredient and the soap acts like a carrier. Bugs can't get immune to it as it kills them by mechanical means, (suffocates them), and not a poison they can become immune too tho that takes many generations and can't happen from a few sprays. The Safers is just the soap with pyrethrums.
With mites or thrips I spray every 4th day for four treatments to make sure they are gone but the last while I wasn't diligent enough and a few survived and now 6 weeks into flowering the few are many but still only in part of the crop. Picking off leaves and wiping the spray on with my fingers so it doesn't get on the buds. Not going to stop them but will keep the numbers down to a minimum and not screw up the crop.
Can you get a nice still picture of one of those bugs? Would make it a lot easier to get a positive ID on them. Know thine enemy to more easily defeat him!
Renfro
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Looks like a mite eater. good bug.
https://www.arbico-organics.com/pro...MIz6mHqd2W4AIVlshkCh29_QVTEAQYASABEgLxz_D_BwE
https://www.arbico-organics.com/pro...MIz6mHqd2W4AIVlshkCh29_QVTEAQYASABEgLxz_D_BwE
The brown thing? Just some soil or mulf or sumn i defoliated and left this leaf on the soil then reinspected it when i got home.
Hard to snag a picture but i think they are neoseiulus larvae or something because a couple of the bigger ones have orange dots on their back and stay around the soil mulch and very low leaves.
*NOT MY PICTURE* but the closest i could find to what look like the mites i have
*NOT MY PICTURE* but the closest i could find to what look like the mites i have
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jondamon
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Check these 2 and see which yours are?
Bulb mites
https://freemygreenpdx.com/topic/14509-pest-bulb-mite/
Mold mites
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/affo...at-are-mold-mites-how-to-get-rid-of-them/?amp
Have a look at both of these and look at yours.
Do yours have what appear to be long hairs on their bodies?
Do they have a yellowish appearance with red mouth parts at the front etc?
Try to distinguish which type you have!
One of these are pests the other are attracted to decay and fungus/bacteria.
Bulb mites
https://freemygreenpdx.com/topic/14509-pest-bulb-mite/
Mold mites
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/affo...at-are-mold-mites-how-to-get-rid-of-them/?amp
Have a look at both of these and look at yours.
Do yours have what appear to be long hairs on their bodies?
Do they have a yellowish appearance with red mouth parts at the front etc?
Try to distinguish which type you have!
One of these are pests the other are attracted to decay and fungus/bacteria.
These all look very similar. But i have yet to discover any mold or a colony of them. They are usually alone wandering on the mulch inleave behind. Some make it on to the lower leaves of the plant. How can i tell exactly?
No red mouth parts. Some have a clear appearance some a little more milky, not really much noticeable yellow. Some have little white hairs sticking out but that is alsona teait of the cucumeris. How do i distinguish them forsure?
BurtMaklin
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Looks like an oribatid mite. I get explosions of them once in a while with my no till recipe, then the ecosystem evens them out. Mine usually stay soil bound but sometimes they wander a bit. Just hose your plants down with neem oil or a neem+kelp tea if your aren't too far into flower. If its bulb or oribatid, it won't bother them. They came free with your compost.
They're all through your soil? Really slow a stupid? If so it's likely oribatid, and they aid with the composting process. If the population gets out of hand you can throw some melon peel in your mulch, once you see them all over it, pull it out and toss it outside. Repeat until you're comfortable with the population.
They're all through your soil? Really slow a stupid? If so it's likely oribatid, and they aid with the composting process. If the population gets out of hand you can throw some melon peel in your mulch, once you see them all over it, pull it out and toss it outside. Repeat until you're comfortable with the population.
Prof.
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they look like beneficial mites to me first thought of a swirski mite (Typhlodromips swirskii) because its pictured on a leaf but when you say they tend to be on the ground more then its probably Hypoaspis spp. they become orange later. both are beneficial/ predatory