tiny white jumping bugs

hi today i have just noticed these tiny white quick moving jumping bugs no bigger than a millimetre in size on my pot tray when i moved my plant,checked the leaves and stems and have moved top soil and cant see any
there are no flies or webs any ideas of what they are and what i can do to get rid of them
all comments welcome thanks
 

ProdigalSun

Well-Known Member
I dont know what they are, but I had them a few years ago. I got some tobacco, some coffee grounds, some tobasco sauce, and made a really stiff tea out of it. I foliar sprayed the plant with it, and those bugs couldnt get away fast enough. They never came back.
 

RIKNSTEIN

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cheers but just found out their springtails thanks for your responses guys much apprecciated
Springtails are well known as pests of some agricultural crops. Sminthurus viridis, the 'lucerne flea', has been shown to cause severe damage to agricultural crops, and is considered as a pest in Australia. Also Onychiuridae are known to feed on tubers and to damage them to some extent. However, by their capacity to carry spores of mycorrhizal fungi and mycorrhiza-helper bacteria on their tegument, soil springtails play a positive role in the establishment of plant-fungal symbiose and thus are beneficial to agriculture.[SUP] [/SUP]They also contribute to controlling plant fungal diseases through their active consumption of mycelia and spores of damping-off and pathogenic fungi. It has been suggested that they could be reared to be used for the control of pathogenic fungi in greenhouses and other indoor cultures.

I kill all bugs..in the long run they only attract more!!
 
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