aphids

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 (",)

Cultivation of pygmy Drosera Jan Flísek and Kamil Pásek Pygmy Drosera comprise up a peculiar group that include the smallest sundews - small growth is a typical characteristic of this group. Most pygmy Drosera are found in southwestern areas of Western Australia. Only D. pygmaea is found in...

Hello, well after finding out i had a pest on my nepenthes in a trade felt i should take some action and ask the forum if anyone could identify the pest and how i can treat it. the nepenthes was inside a propagation tank along with tons of cuttings that were rooting, and tons of germinating...

well, I have black widow spiders like crazy in my greenhouses, and today I saw the shed skin of a snake in there as well. I haven't seen the snake yet, but now I'm afraid to reach my hand in my plants to trim them or repot them! I don't use any chemicals on my plants except occasionally Neem...

OK. Lay it on the line. What are options for insecticides when it comes to cp's? I sometimes just stare at my plants like i'm watching them grow (who doesn't right) and its not uncommon for me to find a few aphids on my capensis so I'll pick em off with tweezers. but today I was staring and the...

Stupid aphids somehow got to my drosera shelf. Anyone ever been in this situation, and if so what insecticide did you use to get rid of them? Is there anything that will work on aphids (the Neem isn't working for me) but won't also kill the dews? Right now it's only the capensis that are...

A few weeks ago I noticed some very tiny bugs among one of my U. warburgii. Armed with a loupe & Google, it appears that they were the smallest aphids I've ever seen. Since I've heard that utrics are like dews in their sensitivity to pesticides, I planned on my 1st use of the relatively new (at...

I just sprayed everything down with neem because I noticed a handfull of my plants had creepy crawlies (one bad shipment, etc.). The one thing in particular that I noticed was that the N.inermis growing tip had them fighting for space because it got attacked the hardest, with N.platychila...

Got any advice on: lighting aphids drowning my drosera capensis So carniverous plants have always been a fasination of mine specially the VFT ever since i was a kid. I've tried to grow and care for about 5 of em in my lifetime none with such great success. probably because wyoming is either an...

I was finally able to enjoy an evening to myself tonight so thought I'd snap a couple pictures of the plants. Once again there was a small mantid snooping around waiting for a meal. He wasnt doing much waiting though as he was jumping around more like a cricket then a mantid! He seemed to stick...

I wanted to hold off seeking help to see if they would recover by themselves first, but things aren’t looking up and I am now pretty confused. This is regarding my two S. ‘Judith Hindle’ clones. I got them last year in the fall and they did fine. They went into dormancy and came out with no...

It is the end of June and for the most part my sarracenia are still making weak leafy like pitchers or very small pitchers. Here in Iowa it just finally got to where it is in the 80 and 90's. I have yet had a plant except for the purpera produce a good pitcher. Is this most likely not from...

Well as we enter June I'm starting to ask myself more and more questions from the looks of my S. leucophylla and S. leucophylla 'Tarnok'. I know that abnormal growth is normal in the beginning of the growing season but now that we are entering June and the temps are constantly in the mid 70s...

Each growing season has its surprises. On the Sarracenia rubra ssp gulfensis "Ancestral Form" I find a pair of fused flower stalks: And just to get into the act, the same thing happened on a division I took of the plant this year: And that's not all, the Dionaea 'Akai Ryu' flower stalk does...

I have one Nepenthes Rafflesiana that's growing great, but about a month ago I noticed SCALE on it! I've been scraping them off, but I went on vacation for a week and they came back with gusto while I was gone. Since I got aphids on 2 Sarrs around the same time I've decided to use Orthene or...

As some of you know, I assumed stewardship of Bugweed"s extensive collection several years ago. Now you all know.LOL The past couple of days, I have divided and repotted 1/4 of his collection. Now if I kept the labels straight,and I went to gr8 extremes to do this and figure out the faded...

2 days ago, i just realized i had aphids on my capensis. So today i will be using my pesticide i used on countless pitchers and VFTs. wish me luck. also, i may try teasing the aphids up to the dew first, see if that works. also my milkweed has some, but i can't use pesiticide because i use it...

I have a P. medusina plant. It is growing new leaves and had grease. It also has what looks like fleas living in the pot. It is the only pot amongst the rack of pings displaying critters. How I discovered it was via top watering. I saw what looks just like the fleas I have seen on pets. They...

I was just checking my Venus Fly Trap after it's been producing really small traps the past couple of weeks. I checked and saw little green bugs covering the leaves. What do I do? I've just trimmed off all the leaves and preparing to immerse the plant in water to drown out the bugs.

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