Tiny caterpillars

Newmmc

Newmmc

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I've been noticing something has been chewing on my leaves for a week now in my veg room. Today I found tiny green worm/caterpillar looking things on the back of my leaves. They are a little bigger than a spider mite.
I've never had and bug before besides gnats in my coco every now and again. So I'm not sure what to use I ordered 1500 lady bugs I plan on throwing in there. I also have an insecticidal soap and jacks bug spray or whatever it's called. I do know you shouldn't use pesticides with lady bugs so I was planning on spraying the plants tonigt then put the lady bugs in there in a day or two... Good or bad idea?
Anybody know what these fuxkers are??? Any advice ? Will the lady bugs work?
My camera isn't working on my phone so I can't take a pic.
The leaves are just missing little chunks here and there.
 
Michael Huntherz

Michael Huntherz

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Newmmc said:
I've been noticing something has been chewing on my leaves for a week now in my veg room. Today I found tiny green worm/caterpillar looking things on the back of my leaves. They are a little bigger than a spider mite.
I've never had and bug before besides gnats in my coco every now and again. So I'm not sure what to use I ordered 1500 lady bugs I plan on throwing in there. I also have an insecticidal soap and jacks bug spray or whatever it's called. I do know you shouldn't use pesticides with lady bugs so I was planning on spraying the plants tonigt then put the lady bugs in there in a day or two... Good or bad idea?
Anybody know what these fuxkers are??? Any advice ? Will the lady bugs work?
My camera isn't working on my phone so I can't take a pic.
The leaves are just missing little chunks here and there.
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Rip off your clothes, throw a garbage can through the window and set the place on fire. That's my advice. I am not a professional advice-giver of any kind, and you'd be an idiot to take any advice off the internets from goons like me.
 
Michael Huntherz

Michael Huntherz

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Newmmc said:
Any experience with these? Or are you just trolling ?
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I don't think that word means what you think it means. No I'm not trolling, but I also don't have experience with those critters.

I'm genuinely freaked out by bugs I can't identify on plants, so my post was literally my initial visceral reaction, plus a disclaimer. Don't trip, if you aren't in flower you have lots of options. Kill kill kill.
Your leaves are missing chunks? Dawn Ultra and water is a good start, about 2 teaspoons per gallon should do. Spray them bitches down, that's what I would do as an initial countermeasure. Good luck identifying them, bummer about the lack of camera.
 
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Newmmc

Newmmc

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Can thrips be green? Because there about half the size of the one in your pic and lime green
 
Michael Huntherz

Michael Huntherz

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You aren't going to get much better information without pictures, dude, I think it is up to you to do some research at this point. Good luck, I think this sounds most like thrips larvae.
 
Newmmc

Newmmc

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So I took a look at one after work today under a microscope. They are thrips They look exactly like the pucture you posted... Out of 30 leaves I looked unde I only found one. But I looks like each plant is slightly effected. So what ever the adults are there defiantly sneaky because I haven't spotted any insects at all.
So do you think lady bugs will take them out completely or should I hit them with pesticides first?
 
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adower

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Newmmc said:
So I took a look at one after work today under a microscope. They are thrips They look exactly like the pucture you posted... Out of 30 leaves I looked unde I only found one. But I looks like each plant is slightly effected. So what ever the adults are there defiantly sneaky because I haven't spotted any insects at all.
So do you think lady bugs will take them out completely or should I hit them with pesticides first?
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Spinosad. Don't mess around.
 
Michael Huntherz

Michael Huntherz

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adower said:
Spinosad. Don't mess around.
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yeah, I so agree, Spinosad is the best for your problem. They are notoriously sneaky fuckers. Spinosad is one of the safest imaginable solutions, like safer than ladybugs safe, seriously. Additionally, they have a dormant phase in their cycle, and when they come back it is going to be nasty, blast them bitches.
 
tstick

tstick

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LOL! …just reminiscing….One time I saw some thrips and decided to get some iso alcohol and cotton swabs….I ended up catching a few of them in the cotton and then I literally dunked them into a cup of alcohol….and I looked at them….swimming!….true story. It took like 5 minutes of being submerged in alcohol to kill them….and even then, I still smashed them to make sure they were dead!

Then I got hip to the Spinosad and hit them with it…They were dead within a day and no reemergence afterwards. Plus, like was mentioned, the Spinosad is completely safe and breaks down to nothing, basically. It doesn't even smell! I don't like using ANYTHING when the plants are in flower, though, unless it's like a broad mite outbreak…which is an emergency! I'm ALWAYS monitoring my few plants…microscope…various magnifiers….At the very first sign of any "alien" creature….I go to war!
 
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