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Thanks for the reply! I’ll try both the sticky pads and DEFew things you can try is some yellow sticky pads in the soil, diatomaceous earth may help as well if the soil has been to moist. Place a nice layer covering the soil and larva will dry out before getting into the soil. Also apply a dusting to the leaves.
Also let the top few inches of the soil dry a bit and don't keep it to wet.
I had Flys and aphids early in the season but the DE has helped.
Thank you for the tips, my mixture has the soap, but not the alcohol. I’ll have to try that, Should be ok if I’m trying to stay organic?Hey! I agree sticky pads and DE are going to be super helpful.. before you add those to the pot I would also rinse the plant off with a hose, may knock and kill a few plants that way. I'd also step up the DIY insecticide, I like the one in this article: https://www.grobo.io/blogs/growing/5-indoor-herb-garden-mistakes-and-how-to-fix-them. It's still got neem but there's also soap, It will help suffocate/ dry out the bugs and rubbing alcohol to kill them on contact. The one I think is just a regular fly but the other looks like it may be an aphid. The nice thing about sticky traps is they also keep an eye on what is visiting your plants!
Hey- I think the rubbing alcohol would be fine if trying to stay organic. I found this online: "Isopropyl alcohol, also known as isopropanol, is a colorless, flammable organic compound with the molecular formula C3H8O"Thank you for the tips, my mixture has the soap, but not the alcohol. I’ll have to try that, Should be ok if I’m trying to stay organic?
I used DUCT tape once and it worked, combined with the yellow sticky traps. The duct tape worked better in mostly catching the gnat larvae and other crawling critters and the yellow sticky traps do well with the winged critters. Of course, the pieces of tape were laid on the soil where the baby gnats were crawling around, sticky side up of course, for those who were wondering.Waiting on sticky traps to be delivered. They were sold out everywhere.
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