aphid

Back from dormancy some of my Drosera trinervia have regained or surpassed their pre-dormancy growth sizes. Once again I let the medium dry out completely for at least four weeks. Dormancy started maybe six weeks or more later than usual. You wouldn't know that a little over two weeks ago...

I went out today to check on my traps (the last time I checked on them had been 3 days ago to water them, which typically lasts 3 days), and I saw some bizarrely shaped traps. I have about 40 individual plants in two different water trays. Below is a picture of a problem that is very wide spread...

http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/so-id/entomology/Benefical_Insects.htm Some of the photos were replaced if not the best quality. Indiscriminately dousing plants with harsh insecticides whenever a bug is seen near your plants will also kill many of the these bugs. Neem is good to use. The bug...

Hi everyone... I thought that it may be nice for anyone with info on various plant issues that arise to post there comments for others and the cure's, since VFT are touchy plants. I'll kick off with Aphid problems.... What is the best and secure way other than the cold weather (",)

Hey there gang, first post on the forum; need some help. I've been having pretty good luck with my heli as a first-time grower up until today - I noticed 3 of the pitchers are looking rumpled and shabby. I was surprised, as so far it's been doing really very well, lots of new growth in the 3-4...

Hi, I walked outside this morning and found that a new trap on my Dente was coming up twisted and the two lobes were not growing together. the flower stalk also is a little bent. I am having trouble posting pics, but if I figure out how to I will post some pics

Hi all I am back after a long winter... My fly trap doing well... Uncles pushing up to flower as is mine... However his one caught the green bugs, I told him to put them outside... Bumped them off... However there still on it, if there alive or dead how do you treat and remove these...

Ok, looks like another phase in the never ending pest wars for me. It never ends - as soon as I think I've got the upper hand, I find a new bug. I just finished an epic battle with mites that lasted several months. Thought I'd enjoy a break, but nope. Today I see tons of these little things...

Will it work for my Sarracenia and Dionaea? im finding small Aphid nymphs....and i want to get rid of the issue now, some of my sarra pitchers are starting to grow deformed due to them...i want them gone, and i want to know the best way.

:poke: as you can see another trap deformed and i'm pretty shure i kicked all aphid but! also i got a gigantic trap Oo i'll show you when it reopen's (accidently closed it when trying to get a few of my dog's hair out T.T) PS: here's what became of my previous chernobyl mouth ;)

today i went outside to take a look at my sundew, and i found Aphid, Spider Mite, and possibly scale. i only saw like 3-4 of those insects, so i took precaution and DROWN the whole pot. it wasnt the only bug that was in there... :-( a bunch(i mean in the hundreds) of super small white stuff...

ok so my VFT is flowering i think but i dun know wether i should leave it or cut it... it's making new leave's the old one's are all brown and dead etc here's a pic: remove the flower yes/no PS: mind the Aphid thread i started

damn! this is what just hapened: i left my plant out in the garden today so it could get a bit more sun However! a gust of wind just came up sweeping all the seed from the nearby tree containing litteraly million's of aphid theyre crawling all over the place and me! i just had the plant...

just took a photo of my VFT the one im tryin to save... iv managed to now control the aphid problem i had they all appear to be dead now after giving it one spray of that provado bug killer. now it seems to be loosing its colour i think this was mentioned when i was readin up on spraying it...

20x Magnifying eye piece. (only) These things are AMAZING. If you think you have bugs or anything crawling around on your plant, this will show you for sure. You can make out aphid eye's, count their legs, etc. If you're working with seeds, you can see detail that's equivalent of professional...

Some time back I had an aphid infestation. I dug up all my woolys, rubbed em underwater in a tank, and left them soaking in a tank for an hour. I repotted everything in sphagnum + perlite and placed them in a terrarium under 16 hours of light daily. 10,000 lux. Here's a pictoral update of them...

My VFTs seem to have clumped like crazy. In the beginning of summer, they were normal VFTs, but then made lots of offshoots, and some strange deformed traps. Here's the bigger one, which was only one plant when it came out of dormancy. And the smaller one, which came as an offshoot from...

In the fall, I was moving things around in my garage and noticed something odd in a bone-dry plant box that had housed some D. capensis a couple of months earlier. It had gone neglected and I never bothered to empty it out after transplanting. Well, there was a little speck of green poking up...

I know a lot of you guys are into bugs as well as bug-eating plants (ironically! ;)) sooooo.... My poor little container garden is starting to get a nasty aphid infestation :P so I'm considering ordering a package of ladybugs to help control them. I heard somewhere that a little dish soap in...

Alright so the aphids are back and they’re not alone. The ants and aphids are taking full advantage of their symbiotic relationship on my VFTs. I have tried spraying them off, drowning them; I even moved the fortress away from the ant trial it was neighboring, but no luck! New traps are now...