What are these?

thcheaven

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• Feb 10, 2009

• #1

I just got done trimming my Bubba Kush plants. I left them in a dark bathroom for 24 hrs. After I was done trimming I removed the drip tray and pots that they were growing in and found my bathroom counter, where I left them for the dark period, covered in 50 or so of these bugs. Some had wings, most were dead, but several were alive and crawling around. I have never seen them on the plants, they do not look like fungus gnats to me. I couldn't find them in the faqs or any where else. Can anyone ID them for me????? They are very small, these pix have been taken with a macro lens and the first three were on the rim of the sink.... Could they be baby lady bugs? I recently released two bags into my flower room....

 

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thcheaven

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• Feb 10, 2009

• #2

bump...... Anyone?

 

Rod Blagojevich

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• Feb 10, 2009

• #3

That looks like a fucked up fly in the last pic...

 

thcheaven

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• Feb 10, 2009

• #4

Looks kinda like a fly, but it was tiny couple millimeters at most......

 

thcheaven

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• Feb 10, 2009

• #5

A few more pix, maybe these will help....

 

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Florida Blooms

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• Feb 10, 2009

• #6

I hate bugs in my stash... sorry i cant help =/

 

thcheaven

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• Feb 10, 2009

• #7

Bump,,,,,,, Nobody??????

 

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Cris620

Active Member

• Feb 10, 2009

• #8

Looks like some spider mites to me but really hard to tell

 

thcheaven

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• Feb 10, 2009

• #9

Some have wings... plus I recently treated with floromite....

 

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mooseman

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• Feb 10, 2009

• #10

interesting.........looks like flys??? was ur plant damaged by them at all???

 

thcheaven

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• Feb 10, 2009

• #11

Not that I could tell. I never even noticed them till I put them in 24hr darkness. now they are everywhere. most are dead or appear to be dieing..... I really am tripping on these....

 

thcheaven

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• Feb 10, 2009

• #12

There also seems to be hundreds on tiny tiny white eggs on the sides on the pots that they are coming from. the eggs were not there before the dark period. I will examine all of my flowering plants later when the lights come on.......I'll see if I can get good pix of eggs.....

 

thcheaven

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• Feb 10, 2009

• #13

Ok, here's the eggs and a couple of the bugs, they seem to be light colored, then dark as they get older, and like I said before, some have wings. Seriously, WTF? I can't find them anywhere to ID, and nobody here seems to have seen them before.....Some new alien bug or what!!!!!

 

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green livin

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• Feb 10, 2009

• #14

were do you live is it a hot or cold climate

 

skunkdog

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• Feb 10, 2009

• #15

aphids?

 

thcheaven

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• Feb 10, 2009

• #16

I'm in central CA. It's hot as hell in the summer and cold, never much below 30 in the winter, but, we did have snow flurries yesterday.

I just checked my flower room, found a few dead or dieing on floor, but NONE on the plants. Could they be soil dwellers??? could the prolonged darkness trigger an egg laying exitement? Seems that the azatrol and Floromite that I sprayed a few weeks ago, May have left a residue, Must be the Azatrol, is killing them off as they hit the floor. But as stated before, I have never seen them before, and there are alot of them.....

 

thcheaven

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• Feb 10, 2009

• #17

They look alot like aphids, but are much smaller than any aphid I've ever seen. Not to mention they aren't on the plants...... Hummm I am so baffled. Looks like I'm buying a couple pyrethrin bombs.........

 

thcheaven

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• Feb 10, 2009

• #18

bump one more time..... Anyone?

 

skunkdog

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• Feb 10, 2009

• #19

i still say aphids there over 4ooo diffent aphids

 

thcheaven

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• Feb 11, 2009

• #20

I went back and double checked my plants. Nothing on the plants..... I am also "mostly, 95%" sure that aphids don't have wings....The fourth picture of my first post on this thread, clearly shows wings. I also believe that aphids would be laying their eggs on the plant, not the side of the pots. Also, I released two bags, approx. 3000 lady bugs into the room 1 1/2 or so weeks ago. Aren't aphids high up on the lady bug fav 5 list?

Thanks for any help and/or info guys....