Got bugs, pics, and a video, what is this bullship

Prince Vegeta

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• Oct 12, 2019

• #1

I'm growing a few autos in a tent,
Soil
Foxfarms
Half ocean Forrest half Happy frog added perlite
Water them only tap water ph'd to 6.5
They haven't needed any nutrients.
Yesterday I saw these guys running around my pot . They seem to be hanging out in the soil .
Not liking it ,
I have a handful of straw on top of each to keep soil from drying out as quickly between waterings.

 

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Prince Vegeta

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• Oct 12, 2019

• #2

Also, they seem to be in the soil, I just checked each individual leaf and no damage, no poop, no bites or bugs on plants themselves

 

Renfro

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• Oct 12, 2019

• #3

Really need a better pic. Use a sticky trap to catch some

 

Renfro

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• Oct 12, 2019

• #4

Look at them really close and compare to images of brown root aphid on google.

 

Renfro

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• Oct 12, 2019

• #5

Pest: Root Aphids

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If it is aphids then you can use a root drench of imidicloprid. I shelve the Mallet brand, 0.5 mL/gal. One root drench and they will be gone in a few days. In flower you are pretty fucked.

 

Metasynth

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• Oct 12, 2019

• #6

Google “hypoaspis miles mites”

It’s likely what you have, a beneficial carnivorous soil mite that feeds on the bad critters in your soil.

 

PadawanWarrior

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• Oct 12, 2019

• #7

Metasynth said:

Google “hypoaspis miles mites”

It’s likely what you have, a beneficial carnivorous soil mite that feeds on the bad critters in your soil.

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Ya they look like beneficial predatory mites to me in search of bad bugs to eat. I have predators in my pots and love em. It looks kinda like this one, but it's just a guess.

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Prince Vegeta

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• Oct 12, 2019

• #8

Don't have any.yellow trap tape
I used some duct tape and grabbed a few ,
Their upside down so makes identity a pain

 

Renfro

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• Oct 12, 2019

• #9

They do kinda look like hypoaspis miles mites.

 

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Terpenoid

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• Oct 12, 2019

• #10

I've been using fox farms ocean forest for a while now and it always comes packed with these. They're beneficial predatory mites, hypoapsis miles, it's all good. Although when I first noticed them I had the same exact reaction you did

 

Prince Vegeta

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• Oct 13, 2019

• #11

I'm hoping I did get lucky and have a good bug. I am seeing zero damage, no big activity near the stalk as the aphids do. Still gonna watch em and freak out the whole time

 

Puremichigangrow

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• Oct 20, 2019

• #12

Just noticed the same with my foxfarm today. Plants 21 days in flower and the pots have hundreds on them. Praying they are beneficials as well. Freakout the rest of flower i guess.

 

Prince Vegeta

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• Oct 23, 2019

• #13

Puremichigangrow said:

Just noticed the same with my foxfarm today. Plants 21 days in flower and the pots have hundreds on them. Praying they are beneficials as well. Freakout the rest of flower i guess.

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I haven't seen any damage in mine at all
, so fingers crossed for us