Thrips? Mites?

[KickYoAss]

I tried google, but I'm just no good with a matchup. Posted is the best picture I can get of one of the buggers. Got maybe 50-100 in the whole crop, so, I'm trying to get rid of them while it's easy. I know I've seen these same bugs outside on my mulberry tree. To the naked eye, they look like a tan little worm crawling around. I've got a few flying critters upstairs, so maybe these are baby white flies?? I know I saw one of the bastards jump

KickYoAss Reviewed by KickYoAss on 08-02-2007. Thrips? Mites? I tried google, but I'm just no good with a matchup. Posted is the best picture I can get of one of the buggers. Got maybe 50-100 in the whole crop, so, I'm trying to get rid of them while it's easy. I know I've seen these same bugs outside on my mulberry tree. To the naked eye, they look like a tan little worm crawling around. I've got a few flying critters upstairs, so maybe these are baby white flies?? I know I saw one of the bastards jump Rating: 5

[stinkyattic]

That's a thrip.
Excellent picture. Would you mind posting in 'Plant problems' a thread that says "Thrip Picture" expecially if you can get a pic of the DAMAGE too. There's a lot of confusion over pest ID.
You can kill those little SHITS with pyrethrin.

[KickYoAss]

I can do better, check this one out! http://boards.cannabis.com/plant-pro...ml#post1576086

All I have is neem oil on hand, think it might work?

[stinkyattic]

GREAT pics, yup, neem oil really slows those suckers down. Go easy on it so you don't suffocate the plants. Raise the lights.
But get some pyrethrin when you have a chance, and treat every 3-4 days until they have been gone for at least a week.
Further applications of a more dilute solution of neem will help prevent reinfestation.

[Divestoned]

fantastic pics man good job

Dive:stoned:

[KickYoAss]

MY GOD THIS HAS BEEN HELL! Spent $15 on some local neem oil, then $15 more on need with pyrethrum. I also emptied my co2 tank, ordered garlic barrier $10, and blue sticky traps $30. The blue traps only seem to trap fewer than the yellow traps...bleh. The garlic crap is ALL over, and it smells like someone's cooking garlic allll day. The claim is, you only smell it directly after spraying it. I smell that shit sooo bad! I broke down and spent the last amount of money I should have to($80), and ordered Botanigard. This is a quart of concentrated fungus, that does EVIL things, to EVIL sunsabitchin' insects. It turns them into, what looks like, popcorn. The spores of the fungus permeate their skin, and grow from the inside, out, and they seem to, burst. I'm going to be very happy when this stuff arrives!!!

[rhizome]

Helpful hint- hit'em w/ some Safer's to dry out the chitin, and then the Botanigard a few hours later. Fungus can only colonize thru breaks in exoskeleton- which will happen eventually anyway ( Lord knows I can't go a day w/o cutting myself) but you can hurry the process along.

Thrips have a subterreanean instar - if you can prevent the larvae from dropping down out of leaf tissue into the media, they will not survive to reproduce. A thin layer of DE or a physical barrier ( like a paper plate, slit to accomodate stem) will suffice.

If you do eliminate your thrips, watch out for spider mite blooms- I can't do a species ID from these pics, but some sp. of thrip will actually act as a mite predator. Ifl you're actually finding adults, without the characteristic damage of feeding larvae, you may not actually have what could be considered a " pest" population. ID of a thrip problem is almost always done by observation of feeding damage well before adults are spotted with the naked eye.

If you think you have 50-100, you have 500-1000. or 5000-10000.

[stinkyattic]

This mite bloom- interesting. I only saw my first mites AFTER eliminating thrips. That is something I had never heard of before.
Chitin= the material that an insect's body is made of.

[rhizome]

Yo Slick-

( I always wanted to say that)

What's your media, grow style, etc?

Instar is non-feeding pupal stage in development.

Chitin is the actual substance that exoskeleton is composed of.

[rhizome]

I only saw my first mites AFTER eliminating thrips.

Be careful what you wish for.