getting bugs out before drying bud?

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DarKmaN616

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Im growing outside and going to be harvesting tomarrow most likely and was going to end up hanging them to dry inside my house. i know there are many types of bugs, many u cant even see that inhabit your buds throughout the season. i didnt use many pesticides and at one point i saw a tiny worm inside one of my buds and i also notice other insect damage on some leaves suck as holes or white marks from thrips or spidermites. is there any way to maybe draw or kill any sort of bugs that might be living in or on the buds out before i go hanging them in a room in my house? or am i going to have to pick through all of it in search of bugs?
 
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Stonefish

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DarKmaN616 said:
Im growing outside and going to be harvesting tomarrow most likely and was going to end up hanging them to dry inside my house. i know there are many types of bugs, many u cant even see that inhabit your buds throughout the season. i didnt use many pesticides and at one point i saw a tiny worm inside one of my buds and i also notice other insect damage on some leaves suck as holes or white marks from thrips or spidermites. is there any way to maybe draw or kill any sort of bugs that might be living in or on the buds out before i go hanging them in a room in my house? or am i going to have to pick through all of it in search of bugs?
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Yikes - well you obviously don't want to be spraying pesticides on your drying bud! You can check for worms by hand. As far as the spider mites, they will abandon ship as the bud dries out (they drink the juice out of the leaves, so if there is none, they will search for other food). Another poster said they had a bad mite infestation, and as the bud was drying out, all the mites crawled to the top of the drying plant, and congregated there in a mite ball...easy to kill. I've never had *that* many mites, but it makes sense that they would do this in their search for fresh leaf.
 
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