insecticide

Have any of you used the insecticide known as imidocloprid (often sold as Merit or as one of the many lines of Bayer insecticides) on Drosera species? Is it harmful to them? Just wondering. Thanks, Corey

Whats that small and red thing crawling baout on my D.adelae? Yup, no doubt about it, as many of you know from their appearance, spider mites are not nice things to deal with. So how do I get rid of them? Well, I've decided to try submerging them, but before I try to make the D.adelae aquatic I...

Has anyone ever tried this insecticide? I saw some at lowes and I wandered if it was safe. Insecticide

Here is my problem: A close up: Looks like mold to me.  What do you guys think?  How do I get rid of it?  I ordered some natural fungicide, but I'm wondering how well it will work.  I'm hoping it won't do any harm.   Here's the description: "K + Neem insecticidal soap is a unique...

i couldnt find the Schultz insecticide recomended in another thread but i found a different one. it is Schultz Expert Gardener House Plants & Gardens Insect spray made from chrysanthemum flowers. it contains pyrthrins 0.02%; piperonyl butoxide 0.20%. do you think i can use this? it sys it can be...

Hi singaporean Cpers, I was just wondering what do you all feed your plants (carnivorous of course) around here. Because I just got a new flytrap and was thinking that I should begin feeding my neps, as I have heard from many people that feeding will have positive effects on the plants. So, I...

Hi All, Some kind of catepillar is munching on the edges of my Nep leaves and pitchers. They are about an inch or two, thin, covered with lots of fine white 1/2 inch "fur". Also, something is eating holes inside the leaves of new shoots and causing them to sort of grow deformed. I was...

Hi. Ever since I got my VFTs I started getting gnats in the house. I've come to the conclusion that they are attacted to the most soil the VFTs are planted in. Those little bugs are so annoying. What's the best way to get rid of them? Should I just spray my plants and the soil with an plant...

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...

Hi , They are here again! After a rough facing in my Sarracenia few years ago (I won that battle with Safer's soap), little mosquitos/ Diptera larvaes are back, eating up my Drosera. These little worms are really nasty pests, can't be remove succesfully by hand, and Safer's insecticide soap...

I am going to be changing my showerstall growing chamber over from greenhouse style (all in pots) to an enormous natural vivarium with most plants mounted to the branches, cocopanel background, etc and some growing in a substrate base with a false bottom. I can get some wood from the Reptile...

I recently moved my plants inside, and ever since then there has been a bunch of tiny little bugs on a few of my VFT's. They are flightless critters, and they seem to only like my VFT's that are growing in pure sphagnum moss. Their is a whole bunch of them, when I go close to the plant you can...

There are alot of little green bugs living in the soil to my sarracenia rubra. The new growth on the plant has started to die and kind of rot away are they eating the rhizome or something? And also can I use ORTHENE, Sevin insecticide on it or will it kill my plant? The active ingredient in it...

Well it's August so natutrally my house is buzzing with houseflies. I bought some odor and insecticide free flypaper with the intention of using the freshest caught flies as nep (and other CP) food. I have a pair of forceps that I can pluck them off the sticky "non-toxic" paper with. is there...

Since i bought a VFT ~1 month ago, all 3 new traps have grown really deformed & curly. The trap itself & the leafy bit along each side of the stem have bumps all over them. There is a number of aphids on the plant - can I spray it with an insecticide spray to kill them off? I'm concerned it will...

I was at the Home Despot last night, looking for fungicide, and as everyone might expect there was only one option. It's listed as a fungicide/ insecticide, which relies on copper for the active ingredient. First of all, I don't know what insecticide is going to do to the plant. I assume that...

Hello I just bought this beautiful new s. minor x alata it's 20 inches high without the pot its a huge monster plant! But when I got outta the store I noticed it had critters (aphids) so I took it back and asked him what I should buy. We went out back after he got mad the suckers somehow...