You should really put chick wire cages around seedlings and be bit afraid of
pyrethrin in veg(literally just crisanthemun extract) Seriously. It's still shocks me everyday that the entire grow world moved away from
pyrethrin just because some forums got to confused with with
permethrin (synthetic plasticized compound intended to have an extremely long half life) 15 years ago, and retailers ran hard with it because you make a higher profit margin off
spinosad anyway because it's a cultured and fermented product, not synthesized or manufactured from extracts like
pyrethrin . Also the echo Chambers. Always the echo chambers
I haven't lost one to predation since I started doing that like 10 years ago. Not a single one.
Doing a dozen chick wire cages costs about $10 and takes about 15 mins of time. Literally 100% of everything I see everyone else do to try and keep predators off their seedlings plants is:
1: not anywhere near as effective
2: cost more money and takes more time to implement
3: by contrast is kinda sorta a total waste of time, money, effort, and resources pretty often
And honestly I even use permethrin under very specific context. If I know a plant is not going to be flowered within 60 days and I'm bringing a phone inside from outside I will per meter in the f*** out of that thing. Every time. And I will never ever see a mite on my indoor plants. Something else I also haven't seen in over a decade now
P.s.
pyrethrin even kills mite eggs. Should you have a spider mite infection on vegging plants you can completely get rid of it in a two-day back to back treatment with
pyrethrin. Or you can use half a bottle of
spinosad over the course of two weeks and you *might* have the same result. But then you also be finding dead butterflies and beneficials for the next month afterwards, which does not have happened with pyrethra and it breaks down in the sunlight in about 2 days
It is important though, that permethrin is NOT confused with
pyrethrin. Not the same thing at all. Permethrin and cypermethrin is what the pest man sprays on apartment buildings once a month lol.
Pyrethrin is a chrysanthemum extract with a very short half life.
Pyrethrin is how chrysanthemums and marigolds keep your garden free of pests. They are where it comes from