LOTS OF LIL BUGS
I was just checking in on my #GoldenPothos and I saw a bunch of these tiny beige-white insects running around. There were a bunch on the rim o the pot and they kept popping up out of nowhere. What are this things? How’d they get here? Are they bad? What do I do? Please help I’m very scared 🫠
16ft to light, indirect
7” pot with drainage
Last watered 6 days ago
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@jtizzle those look like soil mites. Those indicate healthy eco system and they’re not anything to worry about. Spider mites are red and/or have black spots and each side of them.
Here is an at home spray I make that I use preventatively for pests. It works very well. Instead of cinnamon sticks you can use cinnamon oil. You can add a couple drops of Thyme or tea tree oil as well. It keeps the bad stuff at bay and smells great.
Home Depot/Lowes/ Ace Hardware etc will have an insecticide you can buy. Look for neem oil in the ingredients.
Here is an at home spray I make that I use preventatively for pests. It works very well. Instead of cinnamon sticks you can use cinnamon oil. You can add a couple drops of Thyme or tea tree oil as well. It keeps the bad stuff at bay and smells great.
Home Depot/Lowes/ Ace Hardware etc will have an insecticide you can buy. Look for neem oil in the ingredients.
@PatientCowslip it is isolated already thankfully. I don’t have any neem oil, where’s a good place to get some and what should I look for?
@TheOddAsity wow thank you so much for sharing I will try to make some of that. A lot of people are saying they could be aphids which are harmful. Are you sure these are soil mites?
@TheOddAsity I last watered about a week ago. There weren’t any of them on the leaves. If I shake the pot they seem to come out of the soil
Hi @jtizzle!
I have used my fair share of time studying the microsystem in some of my plants soil🙈
I think the bugs in your pictures looks a lot like rove-mites🤔 Check out my pics if you think they look similar. Sientific name: Stratiolaelaps Scimitus🪲
They do not jump like the springtails, and are faster than the soil-mites, both which you usually also will find in your potting-soil working on decomposing it.
Rove-mites lives of hunting down other micro-bugs in your soil, like springtails, soil-mites, and bad bugs like fungus-gnat-larvae.🪴🐛🦠
I have used my fair share of time studying the microsystem in some of my plants soil🙈
I think the bugs in your pictures looks a lot like rove-mites🤔 Check out my pics if you think they look similar. Sientific name: Stratiolaelaps Scimitus🪲
They do not jump like the springtails, and are faster than the soil-mites, both which you usually also will find in your potting-soil working on decomposing it.
Rove-mites lives of hunting down other micro-bugs in your soil, like springtails, soil-mites, and bad bugs like fungus-gnat-larvae.🪴🐛🦠
Hello. This has worked for me: https://a.co/d/5RKbLxt