aphids

Okay I decided to post some pics from my balcony, where parts of my little collection live Here they all are; some sarr rescue attempts, a ping, 2 vft's and 2 neps My N. ventrata that finally began to pitcher! Intermediate  pitcher if Im not mistaken You can also see the vft I found that I...

Alrighty, being a newbie to carnivorous plants, I recently picked up a Sundew Drosera at my local Home Depot (everyone's favorite supplier of carnivorous plants ). There's no details on the label as to what subspecies it is, but I'm guessing its a D. Adelae as it looks a lot like this picture...

One of my vfts somehow has aphids and one other is showing signs of aphids...aka, deformed traps. How does everyone get rid of these little pests? I figure commercial sprays and whatnot are out. soooooo, any help out there?

Hi all Just asking if aphids make plants look deformed. I think they do so im asking if they do , How do you get rid of them? Jim

I walked outside to check on my VFTs this morning and as I was cuddling them, I noticed that there was this rather large praying mantis on my oldest flytrap!  This flytrap having some sort of trap deformation problem, alarms went off in my head because I thought that this little bugger might be...

um my first question is how do i get rid of those aphids without hurting my plant and that wont cost much. And my second question is when i repotted my sarracenia purpureai accidently broke 2 small sprouting pitchers right off. i was wondering if this will have much of a damaging effect on my...

I've got what look like aphids on one of my Capensis. They're small and white and have little twitching legs (ich). It doesn't look like their doing any serious damage to the plant, but they look annoying and I'd really like them gone. Any ideas (besides ladybugs. I already know anout those )...

My wife has a plant that has aphids on every leaf. I wonder if it is a theat to my cps, some only three feet away in an open terrarium, others are about 6' away in a closed terrarium. I thought of putting the plant outside for a few hours to kill the little devils, but I wonder what everyone...

Hello, Yesterday I purchased a S. purpurea 'venosa' at a local nursery. Quite a big plant to, not anything like a Lowes or Home Depot half dead....anyways, this morning to my horror I found aphids, and lots of them. They seem to be enjoying the new growth. Now, the first thing that came into...

A few months ago I transplanted a VFT into a large outdoor container bog. I am in Georgia, and have had success keeping VFTs outdoor all year. I did not disturb the roots and simply placed the entire previous soil into the larger pot and back-filled. Since them, things have not been well. The...

Hi everyone, I'm new to the Forum and need your help. I have a pot containing two drosera capillaris - one of which is perhaps 6 months older than the other. Other than aphids early in the year (which only affected the now-sickly one), both have done well all summer. Recently the older one...

Looking to aquire pea aphids, will cover postage costs and such. Thanks joe

Well, after a while of searching for a safe method to kill of the aphids that were destroying my poor drosera, i have found a cure! I placed all the infected plants into tanks with glass covers. I mist the tanks to raise the humidity and check on the plants. When it seems good, i released about...

I just can't get rid of the aphids on my D. capensis. I've been killing them with alchohol and by smashing thier green little bodies! They just won't go away. I've moved the plant outside to let mother nature help but I'm getting frustrated. I've read that submerging the plant will drown the...

I have a 8 year old ceph that I just repotted in a new pot. Now one month later I see little bugs hopping around white, brown, black. When I blow the suface they hop other than that they just crawl around. The ceph was pretty big but when I repotted it I cut it down so I can grow it from ground...

Hello, After months of everything going great, I suddenly have aphids outdoors, and a white powdery fungus on the soil inside. I've read that Orthene is a good insecticide, but shopping at Home Depot, all they had was Orthenex. Is this the same thing? Also, they had a fungicide with...

I have an infestation of aphids on a few of my S. purpurea. I have been picking them off and killing them by hand for about a month now. They just seem to come back in higher numbers each time. I purchased some Malathion. This stuff makes me sick just to smell it in the bottle at the store...

I was examining my plant this morning and found little white bugs crawling around the soil and the traps. Is this good, or should I have the plant transplanted immediately? I don't notice any damage so far, but the aphid like creatures are an eye sore, to say the least.

Spidermites, Spidermyte, Spider mites, Spidermights. (the above for the 'search' feature). I thought I was going to have to dump all of my CP'S and sterilize everything and start over, until I researched the critter and got some expert advice on this procedure.  I am so happy with the results...

well, it's been a few weeks, and the results are setting in... From my mistaken spraying of herbecide on everything I own outside, instead od pesticide to save my plants from the raveges of caterpillars and aphids... I am down 2 hibiscus (possibly 3, not looking to hot) 1 Oxollis (red) and a...