What kind of critters are these?

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These things are starting to multiply quickly.. I can only find them on the leaves and not in the dirt, they move quickly, and the leaves have what sort of looks like saliva on the tops..
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I will be dosing with a full strength dose of caps teas as a foliar as well as a soil drench in the morning. My real question is what are these little bastards?
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those look like thrips..I describe them as grains of rice and they are in soil and should be some fliers too. Predatory mites or azamax/monterrey. Kinda hard to get rid of them but they can be controlled..and they zap plants more than fungus gnats. Study the life span..for sprays I think it's every 4-5 days..but I could be wrong.
 
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Yeah, most certainly thrips. Take them out before they get out of control!

Get some of those yellow sticky things also and hang around your room.

I'm an outdoors grower, but my understanding is that those traps are only used to gauge whether there are pests present and the extent of any pest populations present. It that right?

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Thanks for all the responses guys.. I thought it was thrips but wanted to make sure.. I am in the first week of flower, do you guys think I should take cuts and start over or just try to eradicate them? I am going to try some predatory nematodes, caps tea as foliar and root drench.. What else should I do?
 
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they aren't a problem unless they get out of control - I've made them disappear with two applications of montery spinosad a few days apart, also used nematodes to good effect. Hypoaspis miles will eat the larvae in the soil as well.


edit to add - make sure your floors and tables are clean. Thrips will lay their eggs on leaves/in stalks but if they sense danger or the environments not right they go low to lay eggs. So dead leaves and dirt on tables/floors are perfect hiding spots.
 
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Amblyseius Cucumeris would be the preferred insect to use against them and they are relatively inexpensive. Hypoaspis in the growing medium takes care of the larval stages. Take a look here at all the options:
 
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Well I foliar sprayed with full strength of Cap's tea (Alien style) this morning and when the light came on I only noticed a couple living ones here and there, it seemed to have killed the majority of them.. I also fed with a 1:3 ratio of Cap's tea when the light came on.. Lastly, I picked up some monterey spinosad and will hit them tomorrow with it for the first time.
 
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Well I foliar sprayed with full strength of Cap's tea (Alien style) this morning and when the light came on I only noticed a couple living ones here and there, it seemed to have killed the majority of them.. I also fed with a 1:3 ratio of Cap's tea when the light came on.. Lastly, I picked up some monterey spinosad and will hit them tomorrow with it for the first time.
If going the spray route...soil drench..upper and lower leaves..top of the pots..might even hit the floor some. Keep at it..for several life cycles. Just when you think you got em whipped they pop back up later in flower...and sometimes with a vengeance. They're quick to move and to breed. When I had them I would alternate with monterey and azamax..because they can become resistant. Good luck bro
 
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