pests

Can i spray my Phalaenopsis with Sevin?

I got a bunch of these on a tree in the backyard. The ants are farming these bugs and drinking the dew they produce. Anybody know what these freaky things are? I asked on another forum, and one person said it was a "leafhopper". I googled it, and these bugs don't look like no leafhopper.

I had a perfectly good S. rubra that was either alabamensis or wherryi (I am not sure). It was fine when I bought it. I put it in the bog and it was wilty (like most plants grown inside). In a few days it sent up some new pitchers as expected for spring growth (IT was not really happy at the...

I got this D. capensis a few days ago from petflytrap.com, and it's not looking too well. I'm thinking that it could be shock? I put it in a 10-gallon to keep humidity up, and water with distilled via the tray method. After being in the terrarium all night, it has sticky dew on it's leaves, but...

I know the subject of pests comes up often. Birds (robins) seem more present at my place than ever. They pick sphagnum off pots for nests, poop on plants and in water, and even uprooted my Sarracenia rubra gulfensis from Crestview. I found the plant floating in water, and planted it...

One week ago today I received a large rooted cutting of Nepenthes x Ventrata that was growing in pure LFS.  It had three fully formed upper pitchers about 4.5 inches tall each one. The next day, I removed it from the LFS and repotted into a different mix, managing to break quite a few roots in...

look what they are now! here sre some photos of my new byblis liniflora from seed (soon to be Jeremiahs): B. Liniflora are very efficient at catching little pests: B. Liniflora: these are very pretty plants, Jeremiah I'm sure you'll love yours

Hello guys! My friend bought a N.Ventricosa recently (Of course, I had *nothing* to do with it...), it had an absolutely ridiculous amount of pitchers, 25 of them to be exact O.o! But now he caled me and said many of them are blackening... I did tell him everything he had to know about...

Hi Today I did one of my all too regular knocking a Nep over act Still the plant remained in its pot seems undamaged and revealed a big pesky earwig that had been hiding in the new leaf which only just started to unfurl! Why are pests so darned clever at hiding? Still the N. mira is enjoying...

I was noticing a decline in the health of my tinny Ceph. Upon closer inspection to my horror what should I find... scales! Any one ever get these pests on their Ceph? and what would you recommend to get rid of them? Thanks, Andre

im really begining to wonder if a pest/illness forum wouldnt be a good idea. anyways on to my problem. ive got bugs eating my plants, well sucking my plants. ive delt with aphids and mealy bugs and well i figured i was fairly familiar with most plant pests but these have me stumped. i would take...

Ok. I have a couple sars that have a rather small infestation of mealybug. I have tried to drown them, but they came back. I tried to get rid of the ones I can see, but I know I am missing a few. So I have basicly decided to go chemical on them. However, I have never used chemicals on my plants...

hello. wondering if anyone can help with with my problem. recently i found that a few of my neps in my intermediate tank are receiving little yellow specks on their leaves, in the hundreds. these dots are yellow, and seem to be where the leaves are starting to die. there is no visiable pests on...

The Peruvian Andes gave the world the potato, which is one of the largest crops in the world today. The problem is, the modern potato is plagued by potato beetles and aphids, which also carry some viral diseases to the plant. Now a wild potato found in the Bolivian Andes is being studied because...

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 I have got a couple of Neps lowii & ovata which have had more than their share of problems since I got them in March Now they are producing rather weak thin growth and I can see with an eye glass these tiny red mites everywhere!! They are NOT red spider mite however. In the UK there is a...

I am in the process of constructing a 30 sqm shade house for my Nepenthes. These are mainly lowlanders with a few intermediates up to 1500m. Right now I have them under a passionfruit vine cover, which works ok, but can probably be better. I know, some people here can not get enough light (used...

This is my first posting, but I've been lurking around this forum for the last 9 months. There are so many knowledgeable individuals here that I figured someone will know about these pests I'm seeing on my VFTs. I've had my three VFTs for almost a year now and they seem much healthier now than...

hey guys, its this newbie again well I was feeding my plants today, actually more like 2 hours ago, whilst doing a general look over of all the plants when I noticed my N. maxima x miranda's newest tendril with a forming pitcher about one cm looked as though it had dryed out, or was half way...

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...