pests

I've been treating my N. Maxima for some sort of mite like pest with 1:4 solution of isopropyl rubbing alcohol for the last 6 weeks with slow but steady success, however now a number of the leaves are showing an orange/brown tinge. I would normally think they are just sun-tanned however the...

I have some kind of tiny grey insect living inthe moss in all the plants in my terrarium, i have no idea what they are and they are too small and fast to get a picture of. I read that you can submerge the pots and drown the pests, they definitely dont fly so i think it might work but i wanted to...

I have 6 ready to thrive. I changed up the soil mix and increased the perlite/reduced the peat so hopefully will look less enticing to pests. I have a very nice looking coccinae, not 1 but 2 grabilis hybrids :). one is a purple gracilis/mirabilis and the other is a gracilis/winged...

Hi all. The last few leaves on my P. "Pirouette" are a little deformed on the edges. I don't see any obvious pests. The plant is near a south facing window on the tray system with no more than an inch of water at a time. As far as potential pests, I have had these funny tiny black larvae-like...

Hello Everyone. Recently I saw weird bite marks on one of my highland Nepenthes. I am horrible when it comes to IDing pests so I thought I'd ask what y'all think of this. The plant has been quarantined, but I'm still very worried. About a month ago I saw the same symptoms on my lowland Nepenthes...

i was watering the plants when i seen a small brown worm make a run for it when the light hit it.......looked like 1-2mm long..kinda skinny......also there are small bugs in the soil.....they are very small and white or silver in color....look like they may have wings but do not fly. they dont...

Ever since I made the trip down to Mississippi from California, some of my plants have been acting weird. At first I thought it was just a consequence of the two-week drive it took to get here (not much light in the car), but because some plants have improved and others haven't, I'm wondering if...

Finally things are picking up in the grow room. No sign of returning pests so hopefully it will be a good summer. This is N. xTiveyi. Healthy uppers forming and a nice basal: I have a couple N. platychila uppers right now: I had to spin this one around: Love, love, love N. Dyeriana for...

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I have a big Sarracenia 'judith hindle' and squirls have been bitting and chewing some of the pitchers and my flowers which are not there anymore. :( they have also up rooted some of my other Sarracenia i have. Anyway i can keep them ir any other small/ large animal from bothering them? Thanks.

Hey! So, I'm just recovering from a year-long, near catastrophic bout with pests of various sorts, from that Hawaiin white scale to thrips to munching caterpillar things, and so on. I attribute it to the long-term use of fertilizers with indoor tray-based growing and hand watering, but that's...

Recently, I had four nepenthes down with pests. Poor stenophylla and hamata x platy had mites while truncata x (ventri x aristo) got downed with a huge mealybug attack (the whole rootball was literally covered with white fuzzy guys :0o:). Now, I've got N. truncata x spectabilis EP making me...

Well at least I think its a fern... I'm no expert. I have these and hundreds of larger ferns (that are all dormant outside). But these smaller ones came out of dormancy early due to the warmer then average temps. So I potted some of them up, I think they will look good among my other plants...

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Well, I'm stumped so far. One of my ventricosas' leaves have started to droop, they used to be very firm and healthy, now they seem weak and floppy/ by comparison - my cultivation techniques haven't changed, except the extremely cold air coming off my ac 24/7 This is clearly not normal. I...

Well, I saw a couple giveaways stating you must be a thank you member- both of these people are members themselves! It's great to see people no only sharing, but at the same time doing so to those that support this forum. That said. I want gifts! I don't want to know what it is...plant or...

My sarracenia are suffering and I can't exactly figure out what is wrong. In some of them, when I unpot them, there are tiny black bugs in the soil that look like sugar ants. I thought that is what they were but as more and more sarracenia keep dying and I keep finding these bugs in the pots...

Here is a picture of a large ventrata I got a few months ago, it has been browning some of it's leaves rather quickly, and I just want to see if anyone thinks it looks overly bad. I haven;t seen any pests besides some ants maybe, and I repotted a week or so ago to give it some more room, but...

Last year was a horrible year for the devil's claws due to horrid weather, weeds growing everywhere, and tons of pests. I got very few seeds, but still have some from previous seasons. I'm going to test how viable they are and plan on beating the pests, weeds, and weather (LOL) no matter what...

Well I have been noticing that my Nepenthes spectabilis x aristolochioides has been producing really strangely shaped leaves, so I checked for pests none! Then the leaves coming out were even more mutated and shrunken some didn't even have tendrils. This morning I noticed the growth point had...