pests

I am trying to identify the soldiers of a recent invasion of one of my plants. There has been a discussion on this in the past, but no light was shed on the subject. People just kept on saying "oh it's prolly thrips." Well these are NOT thrips, so don't even bother. The pests look like big...

Hello all, While tending to my plants this morning, I suddenly discovered much to my horror that my N. rajah and its basal rosette, along with my N. hamata, have black on their growth. The rajah's newest fully uncurled leaf with a developing tendril has edges that look like they have been...

Helooo... I would love to hear what you all use to control algae in your tanks. I'm having a bit of a problem with the wee green pests. Nothing serious as of yet, but I would rather not let it get to that point. I am looking for something obviously CP safe, but also specifically shown to be...

I kind of welcome the warm weather back although I'm likely to be complaining about it later in the year. My siow-siow gracilis mother-plant is done with scale insects and it's looking like a few strands of grass instead of a beautiful bouquet of pitchers! WAHHH... Anyone have problems with...

So far I've got twelve VFT's that just came out of dormacy, and out of them two rotted away in the fridge...(I think it's because I dropped those two on the ground bareroot on accident   )  I took all of 10 living ones out of the fridge for about a month now.  And today all the sudden one of...

Hello. I may need some advice pleas. I have my Cephalotus now for more then 2 years. It has grown ok and eaven flowerd this spring. Any way from the begining of this winter i have noticed white bug on it and in English im not sure if its Mealybug or Scale. Also i see ants visiting them and the...

Hello all you orchid lovers   I recently ran across another discussion board very similar to the TerraForums...but for orchid growers!  There are numerous forums there that cover many topic including Pests and Diseases, Trading and supplies.  The membership is smallish (about 500) but growing...

1) You can kill Sarrs by lack of light. 2) Putting plants outside to grow helps tremendously.  Coloration, pitcher size and overall plant health has jumped huge amounts!  And, the plants did NOT burn, as was my expectation. 3) D. Burmannii hates to be transplanted, or to have conditions...

<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Mold, fungus, and other microbes are intrinsic to growing anything outside of aseptic culture. My fungicide: is to give the plants the best environment I am capable of. I invite the natural process involving microorganisms. The only natural processes...

After ridding my VFT of all her pests for the moment, as a treat I decided to upgrade her lighting to two 13W compact flourescents, in total she's getting 1600 lumens at 6500 k's, around 2 inches above her. The traps are growing ok, and very fast, but I've noticed the color inside the traps is...

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...

Lately Lady Bugs have been getting into my house somehow and several have ended up in the terrariums. Since they are used as biological controls for pests in some greenhouses I figured it's OK to leave them in there til they eventually fall into the pitchers. Is this safe (let them do themselves...

I've just recently found myself fascinated by exotic insects like butterflies and moths. I've always liked praying mantids and leaf insects and decided that I would like to collect some of the most colorful species of these insects in the "easy" Riker Mount style display cases with foam cusion...

I have some white stuff on my plant and I can't say for sure whether they are pests or fungus. If I were to spray both pesticide and fungicide on the plant, would either hurt the plant if there isn't any pest or fungus in reality?

It looks like my Sarrs has become a victim of these pests. I see some fluffy white stuff on the pitchers, esp on the base of older, drying pitchers. I didn't think them to be mealbugs at first, since the white stuff didn't have a defined shape, as I would come to expect of a living pest. But it...

I'd like to start a small CP terrarium with 2 VFTs and a Drosera Spatulata. This would be my first time doing any kind of gardening though and there's a few things I'm concerned about....maybe just out of naivety. If anyone can answer a few questions for me and give me some tips I'd be very...

DOH! I have these little back things on my n x wrigleyana. They don't seem to be hurting it.... yet. I don't want to take chances. Can anyone reccomend a pesticide that's nep-safe? Thanks.