Thrips on tobacco leaf

So I think I have identified the bug as Thrips. A mosquito looking bastard. I catch a glimpse of one flying around once in a while. There were a few on my girls leaves... the very first leaf I looked at through a 100X pocket scope.. magnified it looked huge, and scared the shit out of me.

I have since done 2 neem + zero tolerance insecticidal soap sprays. And have seen no more thrips on my girls.

Closer inspection of my tobacco plant, reveals these eggs.



The good news, is they only seem to be paying attention to the tobacco plant. It is very attractive for some reason... maybe because it is so big?? The good news, the freshly hatched, and adult bugs are all DEAD. As soon as they hatch, and eat thier first meal... they dont go much further.

My homegrown pest strip.

OK... I looked it up in my "marijuana Garden Saver" textbook, and its more likely whiteflys or aphids.

Was going to say that they didnt look like thrips.

Get yourself something along the lines of

Monteray garden insect spray
Conserve naturalyte

this has the active ingredient spinosad and it is a broad spectrum organic insecticide.


J

The point behind my post is that I have a Homegrown Pest Strip. The bugs are attracted to the tobacco leaves for whatever reason. I haven't noticed eggs, or very many bugs anywhere else. The bugs I see on the Tobacco are mostly dead ones. As for the eggs.... when the bug hatches and eats it first meal it is dead soon after.

The eggs were found on this one leaf, so I clipped it off and removed it from the garden.

In my humble experience... tobacco plant is a great companion plant. Both for monitoring, and killing bugs.