Dankalicious
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fungus gnats:
have a mosquito shaped body
visible segment between thorax and abdomen
wings end at the end of insect
when landed, holds its wings flat on top of its back
the center wing vein has a Y at the wingtip
winged root aphids:
have a beetle shaped body
slightly "fat" looking with no segment between thorax and abdomen.
wings extend past the end of the insect
when landed, holds its wings at angles like a wasp
wing veins are all straight
either way, rove beetles and scimitarus mites are your friends...
I use the Mosquito Bits.Mosquito dunks/ mosquito bits. Works slick as shit
I'm in soil, sprinkle some over the top of my pots and like you say, they slowly disappear. I actually sprayed a little Natria too to help get rid of the fliers quicker, only on my pots and floor though, not on my plants.I use them in a rdwc system, tried and tried and tried to rid them shits. Contemplated tearing everything down and starting over after a deep clean. Then ran across the mosquito bits. I put 1/2 TSP in my 80 gallon system and slowly started to see less and less of them. 2 weeks and they were gone. Since then Ill just throw in 1/4 of one of the dunks. Haven't seen any since
Mosquito bits are a microbial insecticide. (BTI) same as one of the species in og biowar foliar pack.Not trying to use any pesticides though. If I was going to use pesticides I'd just spray everything down with azamax. That would wipe them all out at once.
No, it doesn't, but in my experience neither does it do shit for FGs.Wouldn't a sand barrier prevent air exchange?
yes it is quite odd. Had a recent bout with thrips..ended up using Conserve sc to rid them out of my garden. In doing so, the soil was more wet than I prefer. Exactly one week after the Spinosad treatment I was raking the pots and found a pretty decent population of fungus gnats. I was very nervous that they were aphids at first because I thought Spinosad would kill them as well. I didn't have but maybe one or 2 gnats in the sticky cards prior to this outbreak. So I spent a good time scoping what was exactly flying around in the pots. Sure enough fungus gnats. So I add 1/2 cup scoop per 5 gallons of RO and use as a drench also adding the BTI corn bits...no more fungus gnats. It may have something to do with the age or source of the gnatrol imho..but it always works for me and is now a part of my regular IPMIsn't it weird that Gnatrol didn't do shit for my FG problem, where Spinosad did, but it's the opposite for you? I find that so odd.
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