What are these bugs and why wont they DIE!!!

[Tryin2GroMo]

Backstory: I began treating for fungus gnats with Azamax 3weeks ago at 5 day intervals with a soil drench and thought that the little jerks were gone.. i have had bug strips hanging and on the soil tops and have seen a huge decrease in their numbers (at least the flying ones) now to my understanding the life cycle of a gnat is from a grub like pupae to the flying guys that land on my sticky traps..

So up to date: Watered my girls as usual and noticed these MU%&@A F&@*(S doing a backstroke in the runoff water at the bottom of the pots and climbing up the sides when they wanna get out of the pool for some sun..

I have heard of root aphids flying, and this looks something like what id call an aphid.. but givin that ive hit the plants like 4 times with azamax shouldnt it have stopped them from reproducing or feeding and killed them off by now?? im at the begining of week 6 and really dont want to put anything but nutes and water into the soil, but these pests are really doing that.. being a pest!!

so the question is.. Does ANYONE know what thes are and how to kill/prevent them.. No idea where htey came from either.. when i said it is my grow, I lied as i actually inherited it per se..

 

[allseasons]

They look like root aphids, Drench with 5ml per gallon of Bayer (imidacloprid).

 

[green punk]

Sorry man, hate to say it, Dude you got Root Aphids. Read the threads. I recommend Evergreen if your gonna try to save the crop.

Good Luck, Grow Hard

 

[altitudefarmer]

Fire beats root aphids. Only guaranteed cure from wtf I've read everywhere... maybe Merit75 or Bayer Tree and Shrub... but fire definitely kills the pesky lil f#$%ers...

 

[MIway]

fire... ;-) burn mothafucka, burn

 

[AlienBoyD7]

maybe 35% peroxide... dont get that shit on your skin it will burn

 

[Tryin2GroMo]

Thanks for confirming what I feared guys.. because after a couple weeks of just trying to disrespect these things where they live not working and Azamax not doing the damndest thing besides killing off their competition, I've considered fire, like a warehouse fire LOL.. Just burn the building down and start over..

On the real tho.. how late into flowering can you use the evergreen or bayer tree and shrub? because i am about to enter week 6 of flower..

 

[Seamaiden]

Don't use anything with imidacloprid in it at this point. Triazicide can be used, but I personally prefer to allow the longest pre-harvest interval labelled, which is 21 days.

I haven't used Evergreen, but I believe it can be used fairly far into flower. Look up Masonite's posts on it.

 

[SLO Grown]

Bugs!

 

[cofi]

Don't use anything with imidacloprid in it at this point. Triazicide can be used, but I personally prefer to allow the longest pre-harvest interval labelled, which is 21 days.

I haven't used Evergreen, but I believe it can be used fairly far into flower. Look up Masonite's posts on it.

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after flower tear down everything toss it bleach everything

take the time to read this thread all the way thru



aphids are much much worse then mites or anything else :(

 

[Confuten1]

inceticidal soap and azamax combination. you can do this all the way through flower.

confu...

 

[altimood]

I gave may little root aphids Spectracide triazicide and the were doing a back stroke in it while laughing at me. Liquid pyrethrum (Excite R) every 3 days or so got me through my last run. Its available online. But I have seen many suppliers claiming there is a world wide shortage on liquid pyrethrum right now. Get while you can! Also a lot of people are trying Metharizium Anisopliae strain F52, also known as Met52. I'm about to try some right now on my buggies. I will let you know about this stuff as the experiment goes on. I have a good friend who has a line on it for folks in Colorado.