Is this an aphid?

HandyGringo · May 31, 2024

Best picture I could manage, yellow little fucker. Also attached a couple of images of the damage to my plant. So far haven't been sure if it was thrips or caterpillars (I had thrips last year, and caterpillars in some of my non-cannabis plants this year)

But maybe it's aphid(s)?

warble · May 31, 2024

You do have some damage from gnats. I use BT.

HandyGringo · May 31, 2024

warble said:
You do have some damage from gnats. I use BT.

I just sprayed today with BT, but I thought BT was against caterpillar larvae. (Bacillus Thuringiensis)

warble · May 31, 2024

I don't think it kills on contact, but you see less and less until they are gone eventually.

HandyGringo · May 31, 2024

warble said:
I don't think it kills on contact, but you see less and less until they are gone eventually.

Gotcha. Hope it works. But I've also got neem oil that I plan on watering with, which should kill the larvae in the soil, I believe.

Thanks for the help

DCcan · May 31, 2024

That looks like an aphid, or an instar of some other leaf eater. There is a small fly in 1 photo, doubt it's causing the leaf damage.
I'd spray with [pick only one] spinosad/ pyrethrum/ permethrin/ azirdiractin at full strength to knockdown, then use neem oil+Bt-k tank mixed days later, then alternate again for next application, mixing the Bt-k in with the pesticide at the lower application rate.

Organic Insecticide Rotations and Tank-mixes for Vegetable Crops - Alabama Cooperative Extension System

Implement these organic prevention and control strategies to reduce pest populations in your vegetable crops.

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*BT-k for caterpillars, Bt-i for flies

soilgrower85 · Jul 25, 2024

It is an aphid. I am battling them right now since it is summer they really come out to play . get some neem oil and read the instructions than mix with whatever you water with.

Sir Napsalot · Jul 25, 2024

It doesn't look like an aphid to me

that bug's body is more elongated- aphids are rounder

warble said:
You do have some damage from gnats. I use BT.

BT is ineffective against gnats

This is the first year I haven't had any gnats which are more of an annoyance than a threat anyway

soilgrower85 · Jul 25, 2024

Sir Napsalot said:
It doesn't look like an aphid to me

that bug's body is more elongated- aphids are rounder

BT is ineffective against gnats

This is the first year I haven't had any gnats which are more of an annoyance than a threat anyway

this is off of a leaf of a plant I am battling with right now. They are aphids

soilgrower85 · Jul 25, 2024

I treated them yesterday. it takes about a week for them to go away after A thorough spray and watering with neem oil.

Gemtree · Jul 25, 2024

soilgrower85 said:
this is off of a leaf of a plant I am battling with right now. They are aphids

That's thrip larvae. Get spinosad

soilgrower85 · Jul 26, 2024

Thrips can fly. These crawl around like aphids because that’s what they are to answer the original posters question and not debate you need neem Oil read the instructions

Gemtree · Jul 26, 2024

soilgrower85 said:
Thrips can fly. These crawl around like aphids because that’s what they are to answer the original posters question and not debate you need neem Oil read the instructions

Adult thrips can fly and you're wrong lol

Cboat38 · Jul 26, 2024

soilgrower85 said:
It is an aphid. I am battling them right now since it is summer they really come out to play . get some neem oil and read the instructions than mix with whatever you water with.

That’s why I spray wetable sulfur before I put my girls in flower, started a couple years ago haven’t seen p.m, bugs or any other bugs that eat plants since. (But only for summer grows)

soilgrower85 · Jul 26, 2024

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Gemtree said:
Adult thrips can fly and you're wrong lol

can You show me a picture of one from one of your crops?

brogro · Oct 29, 2024

soilgrower85 said:
this is off of a leaf of a plant I am battling with right now. They are aphids

Looking like thrip or mite damage.

Samwiseman420 · Oct 29, 2024

Those are thrips with thrip type damage. Get a small magnifying glass and look at the damaged areas. If you see small black dots then that's thrip poop.

Try to touch one and see what it does. Aphid wont even move. Thrip baby runs under the leaf to hide.

I used several poisons in the past and most have sucked. I finally broke down and got some Capt Jacks Dead bug brew. I went from a cloud a bugs when opening my tent to 2 or 3 flying out of my tent in just 2 applications.

Now I'm using it on top of the soil to kill anything left alive.

Star Dog · Oct 29, 2024

I'd say it's a thrip, immature thrips are wingless and yellow.

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I wouldn't fk around with anything less than permethrin smoke bombs or burning sulphur thrips can be difficult to eradicate iirc

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