john deere
Active Member
Has anyone here used pirate bugs to fight thrips? I've got thrips in my indoor garden so i put about 200 pirate bugs I that ordered in my garden about a week ago. There are very few pirate bugs around now and I'm still having a problem with the thrips especially since I quit spraying neem. I'm thinking maybe most of the adult pirate bugs have laid eggs and come to the end of thier life cycle and now im just waiting for the young to hatch and do the job, but I'm not sure and don't know if I should go back to spraying (which will probably kill my predatory bugs as well) or wait a bit and let the pirate bugs do their job. Any help from first hand expierence on this would be greatly appreciated.