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Yep. Chop everything down, get rid of the soil, sanitize your grow area, and then sanitize again. I dont think the time its going to take to fix all the issues here is going to be worth it, because it looks like more than just possible pests imo.
I hate those things. And hate is NOT a strong enough word lolI would like to take this moment.......besides wishing everyone who celebrates Christmas a Merry Christmas.......we all of course hate spider mites and Aphids, but for those of you who are aware of another insidious menace, one that some human that I would like to personally.........thank......repeatedly.....with a bat.......decided to bring to the United States to "help" control the mite and aphid populations.......
I'm talking about the fake ladybugs. What the hell man?? Really?? For those of you who have them, these things look like ladybugs, but they are not. They're an invasive "lady beetle", and after spending all summer munching on mites and aphids.........they pick warm late fall afternoons, and all at once thay come at your house like it's a magnet. Thousands.......tens of thousands. They make the outside of your house look like it's moving. Like it's snowing red dots. And they want in. Every crack and crevice, the siding, windows, eaves, shingles..........
Hate is not a strong enough word. These little effers have no natural predators, because they emit this orange gunk, not unlike stinkbugs, a foul odor....... nothing will eat them. The only semi-solution is to seal up every tiny crack you can find, and there's a spray, they spray your entire house......it doesn't deter them, they still swarm onto your house to get in........but it will kill 90% of them AS they enter your house.......which leaves 2 problems......sweeping up thousands of these effers (or using a hand vac, which just aerates their foul odor)........and then the months of finding the ones that successfully made it in.......one here, one there.......and of course you can't just kill them, because orange gunk, foul odor.
If anyone wants to make a billion dollars.....find a way to stop these things. If you know them, you know. If you don't know them......you will. They're comin' for you too......
Im so happy I saw this post. I actually saw a lady bug (or I think it was now) in my tent a few days ago. And left it because I thought it could only help. How can I tell if its the invasive kind? and how do they hurt the plant? Lady bugs only hunt other bugs and dont eat vegetation?I would like to take this moment.......besides wishing everyone who celebrates Christmas a Merry Christmas.......we all of course hate spider mites and Aphids, but for those of you who are aware of another insidious menace, one that some human that I would like to personally.........thank......repeatedly.....with a bat.......decided to bring to the United States to "help" control the mite and aphid populations.......
I'm talking about the fake ladybugs. What the hell man?? Really?? For those of you who have them, these things look like ladybugs, but they are not. They're an invasive "lady beetle", and after spending all summer munching on mites and aphids.........they pick warm late fall afternoons, and all at once thay come at your house like it's a magnet. Thousands.......tens of thousands. They make the outside of your house look like it's moving. Like it's snowing red dots. And they want in. Every crack and crevice, the siding, windows, eaves, shingles..........
Hate is not a strong enough word. These little effers have no natural predators, because they emit this orange gunk, not unlike stinkbugs, a foul odor....... nothing will eat them. The only semi-solution is to seal up every tiny crack you can find, and there's a spray, they spray your entire house......it doesn't deter them, they still swarm onto your house to get in........but it will kill 90% of them AS they enter your house.......which leaves 2 problems......sweeping up thousands of these effers (or using a hand vac, which just aerates their foul odor)........and then the months of finding the ones that successfully made it in.......one here, one there.......and of course you can't just kill them, because orange gunk, foul odor.
If anyone wants to make a billion dollars.....find a way to stop these things. If you know them, you know. If you don't know them......you will. They're comin' for you too......
I think true lady beetles will have no more than six dots on their backs.Im so happy I saw this post. I actually saw a lady bug (or I think it was now) in my tent a few days ago. And left it because I thought it could only help. How can I tell if its the invasive kind? and how do they hurt the plant? Lady bugs only hunt other bugs and dont eat vegetation?
Ok so if you look at the head of it, you'll see a black M on its head. Or a W, depending on how you look at it. They can be orange to red, have black dots....but sometimes none...Im so happy I saw this post. I actually saw a lady bug (or I think it was now) in my tent a few days ago. And left it because I thought it could only help. How can I tell if its the invasive kind? and how do they hurt the plant? Lady bugs only hunt other bugs and dont eat vegetation?
Lovely. Well just to be safe next time I see it ill remove it from the tent and put it outside.Ok so if you look at the head of it, you'll see a black M on its head. Or a W, depending on how you look at it. They can be orange to red, have black dots....but sometimes none...
Do you mean actual ladybugs? The nice ones? That might be the case but it's the "M" on the heads that truly reveals the invasive Asian beetle......and I think they actually kill the nice ladybugs as competition.I think true lady beetles will have no more than six dots on their backs.
No they won't harm the plants......although you don't want them crawling all over them and doing whatever else they do.......or get stuck on the resin....that wouldn't be fun. The problem is in their numbers, and the fact that they have no natural predators. You will end up having them multiply as more and more of them worm their way into your garden where the nice warmth and light is.......especially in the winter as they will seek to "overwinter" indoors.Im so happy I saw this post. I actually saw a lady bug (or I think it was now) in my tent a few days ago. And left it because I thought it could only help. How can I tell if its the invasive kind? and how do they hurt the plant? Lady bugs only hunt other bugs and dont eat vegetation?
Spinosad soap, kills everything insect like. Look it up.I would like to take this moment.......besides wishing everyone who celebrates Christmas a Merry Christmas.......we all of course hate spider mites and Aphids, but for those of you who are aware of another insidious menace, one that some human that I would like to personally.........thank......repeatedly.....with a bat.......decided to bring to the United States to "help" control the mite and aphid populations.......
I'm talking about the fake ladybugs. What the hell man?? Really?? For those of you who have them, these things look like ladybugs, but they are not. They're an invasive "lady beetle", and after spending all summer munching on mites and aphids.........they pick warm late fall afternoons, and all at once thay come at your house like it's a magnet. Thousands.......tens of thousands. They make the outside of your house look like it's moving. Like it's snowing red dots. And they want in. Every crack and crevice, the siding, windows, eaves, shingles..........
Hate is not a strong enough word. These little effers have no natural predators, because they emit this orange gunk, not unlike stinkbugs, a foul odor....... nothing will eat them. The only semi-solution is to seal up every tiny crack you can find, and there's a spray, they spray your entire house......it doesn't deter them, they still swarm onto your house to get in........but it will kill 90% of them AS they enter your house.......which leaves 2 problems......sweeping up thousands of these effers (or using a hand vac, which just aerates their foul odor)........and then the months of finding the ones that successfully made it in.......one here, one there.......and of course you can't just kill them, because orange gunk, foul odor.
If anyone wants to make a billion dollars.....find a way to stop these things. If you know them, you know. If you don't know them......you will. They're comin' for you too......
I would need to soap the entire outside of the house, roof, windows, eaves, siding.....Spinosad soap, kills everything insect like. Look it up.
If we are talking about outdoor preventative treatments then have you tried using a hose attachment insecticide and granular insecticides to treat your yard and surrounding property in intervals through the year. Ever since i started doing that about every 3-5 months I have never had an issue.I would need to soap the entire outside of the house, roof, windows, eaves, siding.....
I'll definitely look it up, we already get a monthly pest control service, they do different things each month. End of Sept-October is the whole outside of the house spray. They use a natural spray, and use a pump to get it up high, the top floor, the roof.......again, from what I know about these Asian lady beetles, you can't kill them before they swarm and hit the house, but the spray is sticky and lasts weeks. As they hit the house and begin to work their way in, the spray kills 'em..... most of them. Still, if 9,000 out of 10,000 die, that means that little by little, 1,000 of them work their way inside. As it gets colder and colder, they keep working their way in through any cracks/path they can find. If you only want a few hundred to get inside through November, December, you have to go around and seal, caulk,.....every crack and crevice you can find. You can tell the weakest link areas by where/how they get in.
They actually leave pheromones, trails that others will follow in......
Are we still talking about the Asian lady beetle/fake ladybugs? Where we are we are surrounded by forest, and we have a pond. It's not the suburbs, we're talking hundreds of acres of forest all around. It would be a monumental task to start spraying the forest lines, trees.....there's either farms, scattered houses, or forest. And there's really no way of going out over acres, hundreds of acres, thousands.......there is no direct kill spray for them, unless we want to aerial spray and poison the forest......although believe me, I've thought about it. ;)If we are talking about outdoor preventative treatments then have you tried using a hose attachment insecticide and granular insecticides to treat your yard and surrounding property in intervals through the year. Ever since i started doing that about every 3-5 months I have never had an issue.
Lol. I didnt realize that. No. Please dont do that. Im fairly sure that the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service would have a major problem with thatAre we still talking about the Asian lady beetle/fake ladybugs? Where we are we are surrounded by forest, and we have a pond. It's not the suburbs, we're talking hundreds of acres of forest all around. It would be a monumental task to start spraying the forest lines, trees.....there's either farms, scattered houses, or forest.
Yeah........ha!Lol. I didnt realize that. No. Please dont do that. Im fairly sure that the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service would have a major problem with that
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