pests

I noticed some little black bugs that looks kind of like sugar ants walking on my neps inside my house. I don't see any pitcher or leaf damage at all. I couldn't get a good picture because they're small and my camera is crap. I have placed an online order for ladybugs just to be safe. I plan to...

My S. purpurea and D. intermedia is infected with mealybugs. What should I do to get rid of those annoying pests?

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...

Hi All I have been growing Pinguicula for a couple of years now. I currently have around 20/25 species and hybrids and have been relatively happy with the results I have obtained. I recently had to change my grow area and so the plants are experiencing their first summer in their new grow...

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...

Hey All! Iv'e got a N. sanguinea sitting in a tray to collect runnoff. But I watered it today and as the water pooled in the tray i noticed tiny chunks of dirt in the water movin arround. and as i looked closer i saw tiny barely visible white lookin worms. the longest were like, not even a...

Here's an interesting one, this is my first Nepenthes, which has appeared to have come down with something. It has stopped pitchering, and now has brown spots on all of the leaves. None of my other plants have showed similar symptoms, and this plant has been looking like this for some time...

Hi, all! The other day, I noticed that all of the pitchers' lids on my Hummer's Giant were closed. From the knowledge I've gained from several of you, I thought it simply to be a humidity problem, as I saw my humidity gauge had registered 30% at one point, and my humidifier was running...? I...

I ordered an Orchid which was infested with mealybugs. Needless to say, I am very upset with the vendor. I've had my Ceph Hummer's Giant sitting right next to it over the past couple of weeks and noticed for the first time last night that I had a major bug problem, thanks to that orchid. I...

I have a mini-bog outside. It is full of sarr's and vft's. It has plugged drain holes and so is functionally undrained. Growing in lfs/peat/bark. It gets full sun all day, minimum of 12 hrs. Mostly rain watered. Topped off occasionally with low ppm well water. The sarrs are thriving. The...

I'm looking for some good aquarium forums, wikis and similar online references. I'm trying to find some biological controls for mosquitos and other aquatic pests for the water garden I'm working on. This wouldn't be too hard ordinarily, but the garden will be in Panama, so I would like to use...

So, recently, some of my N. inermis x bongso's leaves are getting weird marks/coloring. The lastest leaf doesn't show any sign of discoloration, but it just recently opened and it could possibly happen afterwards. Thoughts? As far as I can see, there are no pests.

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...

Here in Florida, it's been raining like crazy the past week. About two weeks ago, I bought a ten-gallon fish tank to put my plants in. There was no lid or anything. I looked at my plants yesterday, and the fish-tank with my plants was filled to the very top with rain-water. All my plants were...

Has anyone ever had a problem with tiny little inchworms? I have found 2 on my jonesii and one on a flytrap flower. Two of the jonesii pitchers came out deformed and finally wilted and died. One of the flowers also died a few weeks after blooming. Most of the plant is doing fine however so...

Here are some shots of Sarracenia x aerolata and an emerging pitcher of Sarracenia leucophylla "Titan," which is finally living up to its reputation this season. It is already approaching 1 meter in height and is still developing. Another shot of the S. leucophylla cv. "Titan" and S. flava...

Hi everyone the smorning i woke up and i opened a window then about 20 minutes later i waterd my plants venus fly traps,sundews,apple tree... lol the apple seeds have not spouted yet and i notice this fly thing as i waterd them now it wasent as big as your average fly outside (my plants are...

Here is a quick shot of my highland Nepenthes truncata, which has been growing happily on my south-facing windowsill and controlling its share of pests -- a plant which my sister-in-law condemned a while back as being "truly obscene-looking," giving me the stink eye in the process, as if I had...

I have a few pots of small sundews and seedlings that share the same water tray and today while I was top watering I noticed tons of tiny worm-like bugs all over the soil. I would have never noticed them, but they were floating on top of the water as it was draining through the pots. They look...

Has anyone ever gotten little brown-black spiders in thier order? I also found what i think to be little eggs. they are about the size of the writing tip of a sharpie marker. I cracked one open on accident and didnt see anything in it. they were in the media on the top. very wierd. I am wearing...