Yup! Seems like that'll be the case. They're very small though. I placed all my plants very close to each other so the nymphs can walk between plants until they can fly
I just read up on these guys and it looks like they can bite ppl too? Are you not concerned about that? Interested in these guys cause my wife is battling mealy bugs on one of her house plants currently.
You'll see them at first when you free them, to never see them again. Contain the plants in a terrarium or a makeshift grow house and seal it, with the oriusbugs inside. That'll do the trick.
And buy nematodes and something that will attack the larvae stage of thrips.
I got bugs in the mail today too! Not me a grown adult sitting on the floor in the laundry looking for them to start moving in and making themselves a nice spider mite sandwich
I had looked into ordering those before finding an insane supply in our woodpile. Now when we bring wood in, i spot them and transfer them to our plants…just in case the old thrips are still around.
Ive slowly been losing the war with over 50 plants for a few years and this year have given up, started just tossing the smaller ones at any sign of the bastards, but some plants are old and huge, it pains me to lose them😞
You're battle cry has reinvigorated the warrior in me, Im going back to square one and following all the great tips on here, best of luck soldier!
Before throwing them out I would try beheading them completely. It's way easier to clean them that way, and usually plants bounce back. As a very last resort of course.
That seems to work for only so long and then all of a sudden their popping up EVERYWHERE! I even washed them, changed all the pots and all the dirt, then sprayed neem oil 2 or 3 times, last fall, it was exhausting! They seemed fine until about Jan.
I put a few big ones outside, they can live out there until I try to figure out a plan 🤷♀️
I battled with thrips for a year and this is the only thing that worked for me:
1. Mix systemic granules into top 2 inches of soil.
2.Bring all plants outside and absolutely BLAST with a hose. Like almost knock them over with water pressure. Make sure soil gets wet to activate granules.
3. Let dry.
4. Spray (and I mean COVER) with a mix of half alcohol, half water, and a tbsp of dish soap.
After the first time I did this, I didn’t see any thrips. A month later, I saw a few on several plants and repeated the above steps. After the second treatment (abuse) I never saw a thrip again and have been free of them for over a year now! The blast knocks them off, the alcohol/soap kills any remaining, and the granules kill any eggs in the soil.
This is really fantastic advice, thank you!
Im going to buy granules this week (open to suggestions), was already hauling them to the backyard this afternoon, perfect timing!! I'll then follow the remaining steps as you've outlined above, really appreciate the details.
You’re so welcome! These are the ones I used
https://preview.redd.it/ouygoo5wv08d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=40dbd8a5c6c310c2932505074febe663cc3b579d
Diatomite is of value as an insecticide because of its abrasive and physico-sorptive properties.[25] The fine powder adsorbs lipids from the waxy outer layer of the exoskeletons of many species of insects; this layer acts as a barrier that resists the loss of water vapour from the insect's body. Damaging the layer increases the evaporation of water from their bodies, so that they dehydrate, often fatally.
This also works against gastropods and is commonly employed in gardening to defeat slugs. However, since slugs inhabit humid environments, efficacy is very low. Diatomaceous earth is sometimes mixed with an attractant or other additives to increase its effectiveness.
The shape of the diatoms contained in a deposit has not been proven to affect their functionality when it comes to the adsorption of lipids; however, certain applications, such as that for slugs and snails, do work best when a particularly shaped diatom is used, suggesting that lipid adsorption is not the only factor involved. For example, in the case of slugs and snails, large, spiny diatoms work best to lacerate the epithelium of the mollusk. Diatom shells will work to some degree on the vast majority of animals that undergo ecdysis in shedding cuticle, such as arthropods or nematodes. It also may have other effects on lophotrochozoans, such as mollusks or annelids.
Medical-grade diatomite has been studied for its efficacy as a deworming agent in cattle; in both studies cited the groups being treated with diatomaceous earth did not fare any better than control groups.[26][27] It is commonly used in lieu of boric acid and can be used to help control and possibly eliminate bed bugs,[28] house dust mite, cockroach, ant, and flea infestations.[29]
Diatomaceous earth is widely applied for insect control in grain storage.[30] It is used to control cannibalistic behaviors in confused flour beetles, which infest flour storages.
In order to be effective as an insecticide, diatomaceous earth must be uncalcinated (i.e., it must not be heat-treated prior to application)[31] and have a mean particle size below about 12 μm (i.e., food grade—see below).
From Wikipedia
All over the plant, leaves, branches everything. Some will automatically hit the soil. Use a squeezy ketchup bottle.,. It’s too fine to sprinkle by hand
Use a systemic pesticide and treat all your plants. The accumulation in the plant also kills the following generations that nest inside the tissue. Be sure to treat all plants and also spray the top layer of the soil. Its better than to spray endlessly with contact pesticides. Good luck!
This. Systemic granules + spraying down with jacks dead bug brew 1x a week for 3 weeks. Thrips will be gone. It is absolutely overblown how long the treatment or "battle" is. Go nuclear, get it over with and move on. You do this with ALL indoor plants, not just the one Infected.
Neem doesn't work and will kill your plants before it kills off thrips. Predatory mites and other bugs won't eat every single thrips, and just one or two that gets away restarts the infection elsewhere in your house.
The thrips life cycle lasts 3 weeks, that's why you spray once a week for three weeks. Adult thrips lay their eggs INSIDE leaf tissues. When the larva hatch, they suck on the fluids of their host plant. When they are ready to pupate, they drop to the soil and turn into adults. The adults either fly back up to the original host plant or go off searching for new plants. Systemic and a good pesticide like captain jacks dead bug brew will interrupt and stop the cycle.
Again, you have to treat all plants.
Systemic is pretty much as US only thing, here in EU we cant do that. Nowhere to be sold. (Switzerland here for example, but same for many countries afaik)
Im personally using the beneficial insects cause it’s been close to the only thing kinda working. Still quite expensive in the long run
Edialux conserve garden is available in the EU, and should be available in Switzerland and contains Spinosad. You can use it as a soil drench, and put it in a liquid concentration as a spray. Also apparantly KB multisect. (Am Swiss too, just Swiss american. Just asked my fam from switzerland about this.)
Still a 3 week treatment plan with them, you just don't get the 2 month prevention of the Systemic.
Thats actually good to know. Im trying as much as i can but dealing with Bio things everywhere is starting to become a dumb fight. Sometimes you need the big guns ahah
Will check your recommendations for sure to get rid of those guys for good !
Yeah, Thrips are absolutely a pain, and they do need big guns, or else they just constantly move to different placecs. Hopefully they work for you. I searched under Schweiz webpages and found them listed a few places, but I'm not too familiar with local shipping, and my schweizerdeutsche is horribad, since I never learned to read it properly.
Dont worry about schweizerdeutsch im in the french part of Switzerland ahah
But yeah, i will definitely give it a look. I recently found NeemAzal-T/S. Im on week one with it, will see if it works in a way or not.
Thabks for the recommendation though, I screenshotted your message ahah
Yeah! You can sprinkle some ambylesius mites or beneficial nematodes to help eat thrips and larvae off plants.
I lived near a local gardenry to buy when I needed it, but they’re also sold online. I think i saw a mite-shaker on Amazon once.
Having fully conquered thrips many times (not just my own plants but I work as a plant rehabber), you have to use the tough stuff. Thrips have a complicated life cycle and need to be retreated for months, even ifyout think they are gone, they lay their eggs inside the plant and they will continue to come back. This is why a systemic is so important. Bonide systemic granuals is a great option. For a foliar spray, opt for something with spinosad. Skip neem, skip soap, these are ineffective, and sorry but skip predatory insects - you need to work fast with thrips and they just won't cut it.
This is from 11 years of experience working in the plant world and 5 years specifically as a plant rehabber.
I agree, after trying neem, soap and other options I didn't notice any difference. Finally bought a very hardcore insecticide from Amazon and after a couple of treatments, no more thrips! And my plants survived ☺️
I got thrips and they killed more than half my collection. I didn’t want to try insecticides because I wanted to battle them a more natural way but failed. After a YEAR I decided to get houseplant granules. They’re like little tiny seed like rocks you sprinkle in your soil. I just sprinkled them right on top of the soil and water the top a little. Everytime you water your plants they absorb the granules. so when the thrips try to suck the life out of the plant they also suck the insecticide and it kills the thrips!!! I would recommend getting some houseplant granules.
I discovered some thrips damage too this week and I had to do the same. I washed all my plants and swipe with a microfiber cloth. I want to buy neem oil but I don't know if it's really effective.
Neem oil killed my plants faster than the thrips did!
I had thrips really bad and I magically and accidently got a predatory mite infestation so I just put all my pants together so the mites would spread. It took about 3 weeks before I saw no thrips and the mites hung around for another few weeks but then they vanished. That was a year ago and still no sign of thrip return!
I recently bought a plant and found thrips when I brought it home, I read that humidity kills them so I put the plant in a plastic bag and left it in indirect light for 5 weeks. When I opened it up I found no thrips, but I did find mealybugs! So I took it out of the soil, washed the roots and submerged the whole plant in dish soap and rubbing alcohol water for 24h. That was 4 days ago and so far I haven't seen any pests. The plant is now sitting in a plastic cup with a tiny amount of water until I decide if I should risk keeping it.
It's a beautiful Birkin.
Just got some minute pirate bugs for my thrips.. FUCK THEM BUGSSSSSSS
https://preview.redd.it/a0l25excgr7d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2b0f8bd24de495851815a315b4d6079fc77546ce
Me cleaning yesterday. 😩
https://preview.redd.it/qavek1b6xq7d1.jpeg?width=2160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2a15de5435bf7aac107f1e37f657f19e4d3cf569
Found them in here... in my office lol, no clue how they got in or how they followed me from home
Check out Grandevo. We use it for commercial cannabis production and it destroys thrips and smells like smoked gouda
Edit: we use it for a multitude of plant pests and have it part of our integrated pest management program.
I feel your pain and I hate thrips as well. Get this product, Captain Jacks Deadbug Brew concentrate. You just dilute it with water (per gallon) , place in a spray bottle and spray the plant leaves above, under and on the stems. Once the thrips continue to try to eat the drain the plant of its energy, they will ingest the insecticide and die in a day or so. My experience using it, once I spray them the thrips walk around for a few seconds then stops completely. I wait until the insecticide dries on the plant and see if the thrips move. They just fall off 😂.
There is a spray version of this if you don't feel like diluting the product yourself.
[Captain Jacks Deadbug Brew Concentrate ](https://a.co/d/03l46qre)
https://preview.redd.it/ghuu415qat7d1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6bd213f17be86bcf1739b8a37fe7216b541e1563
The trick is to alternate between pyrethrin, spinosad, and Neem to avoid them building an immunity. Bifen can be used as a broad spectrum around your whole property, but it is restricted so check your local regs. Once you have them under control, dichaetamous earth can help keep it that way, but it is not a good knockdown IMO.
All of these can be implemented into IPM, but if you want to lower how often you're spraying, then introduce biologicals.
Just out of curiosity did you find actual thrips or did damage on plants tip you off? I keep trying to figure out if my plants are just stressed with watering/light/repotting or if I have a pest issue
I had thrips 2 years in a row. The only effective solution that worked for me was apply Green lacewigs. 3 treatments 2 weeks apart. On the last treatment, I also applied sachets of nematodes. Good luck to all that are fighting this battle.
My biological warfare in my long war against thrips just arrived today. Orius bugs. Fuck you thrips!
U let them freely fly in your house or what? I have huge issues with thrips.
Yup! Seems like that'll be the case. They're very small though. I placed all my plants very close to each other so the nymphs can walk between plants until they can fly
Where did you buy them?
If you need an American one, Natures good guys! They are awesome
Thanks! Where do you buy them?
Just type natures good guys in the web browser, that literally the website name (:
From a Web page! It's swedish, and they ship only throughout the nordics. I can share it if it's of interest!
I would be interested to know the company you buy them from
https://shop.nyttodjur.se/shop/11-vita-flygare---mjolloss/16-oriusbaggar/
I just read up on these guys and it looks like they can bite ppl too? Are you not concerned about that? Interested in these guys cause my wife is battling mealy bugs on one of her house plants currently.
they definitely dO bite and very painfully too. such a huge bite for something so tiny. you WILL feel it. kinda like a bee sting.
Pred mites work pretty well too and you can’t even see them. Same as Nematodes
You'll see them at first when you free them, to never see them again. Contain the plants in a terrarium or a makeshift grow house and seal it, with the oriusbugs inside. That'll do the trick. And buy nematodes and something that will attack the larvae stage of thrips.
I got bugs in the mail today too! Not me a grown adult sitting on the floor in the laundry looking for them to start moving in and making themselves a nice spider mite sandwich
Mine did not want to leave the packaging they came in at all 😤
I had looked into ordering those before finding an insane supply in our woodpile. Now when we bring wood in, i spot them and transfer them to our plants…just in case the old thrips are still around.
Best of luck in the coming battles!
Thank you! Me and my nematode army need all the moral support we can get. 😢
I’ve gotten lazy about isolating, thank you for the reminder <3
Omg. If this post helps just ONE person, it’s done it’s job. ❤️
And good luck defeating the evil!
Ive slowly been losing the war with over 50 plants for a few years and this year have given up, started just tossing the smaller ones at any sign of the bastards, but some plants are old and huge, it pains me to lose them😞 You're battle cry has reinvigorated the warrior in me, Im going back to square one and following all the great tips on here, best of luck soldier!
Before throwing them out I would try beheading them completely. It's way easier to clean them that way, and usually plants bounce back. As a very last resort of course.
That seems to work for only so long and then all of a sudden their popping up EVERYWHERE! I even washed them, changed all the pots and all the dirt, then sprayed neem oil 2 or 3 times, last fall, it was exhausting! They seemed fine until about Jan. I put a few big ones outside, they can live out there until I try to figure out a plan 🤷♀️
I battled with thrips for a year and this is the only thing that worked for me: 1. Mix systemic granules into top 2 inches of soil. 2.Bring all plants outside and absolutely BLAST with a hose. Like almost knock them over with water pressure. Make sure soil gets wet to activate granules. 3. Let dry. 4. Spray (and I mean COVER) with a mix of half alcohol, half water, and a tbsp of dish soap. After the first time I did this, I didn’t see any thrips. A month later, I saw a few on several plants and repeated the above steps. After the second treatment (abuse) I never saw a thrip again and have been free of them for over a year now! The blast knocks them off, the alcohol/soap kills any remaining, and the granules kill any eggs in the soil.
And I feel the need to add that I had over 50 infested plants, so it works on a large scale!
I have about 50 as well and some are huge and/old so Im going to keep trying!
This is really fantastic advice, thank you! Im going to buy granules this week (open to suggestions), was already hauling them to the backyard this afternoon, perfect timing!! I'll then follow the remaining steps as you've outlined above, really appreciate the details.
You’re so welcome! These are the ones I used https://preview.redd.it/ouygoo5wv08d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=40dbd8a5c6c310c2932505074febe663cc3b579d
Im in, thanks so much!!
Off topic but I love your vintage tub and tiles. 🤌🏻🤎
🫶🏽
Try diatomaceous earth powder. Sprinkling it on plant killed the thrips etc on mine. Non toxic to humans. Easily available
Good tip, thank you! I’ll see if I can get a hold of some here in der Vaterland.
Is it ok to use with pets in the house?
Diatomite is of value as an insecticide because of its abrasive and physico-sorptive properties.[25] The fine powder adsorbs lipids from the waxy outer layer of the exoskeletons of many species of insects; this layer acts as a barrier that resists the loss of water vapour from the insect's body. Damaging the layer increases the evaporation of water from their bodies, so that they dehydrate, often fatally. This also works against gastropods and is commonly employed in gardening to defeat slugs. However, since slugs inhabit humid environments, efficacy is very low. Diatomaceous earth is sometimes mixed with an attractant or other additives to increase its effectiveness. The shape of the diatoms contained in a deposit has not been proven to affect their functionality when it comes to the adsorption of lipids; however, certain applications, such as that for slugs and snails, do work best when a particularly shaped diatom is used, suggesting that lipid adsorption is not the only factor involved. For example, in the case of slugs and snails, large, spiny diatoms work best to lacerate the epithelium of the mollusk. Diatom shells will work to some degree on the vast majority of animals that undergo ecdysis in shedding cuticle, such as arthropods or nematodes. It also may have other effects on lophotrochozoans, such as mollusks or annelids. Medical-grade diatomite has been studied for its efficacy as a deworming agent in cattle; in both studies cited the groups being treated with diatomaceous earth did not fare any better than control groups.[26][27] It is commonly used in lieu of boric acid and can be used to help control and possibly eliminate bed bugs,[28] house dust mite, cockroach, ant, and flea infestations.[29] Diatomaceous earth is widely applied for insect control in grain storage.[30] It is used to control cannibalistic behaviors in confused flour beetles, which infest flour storages. In order to be effective as an insecticide, diatomaceous earth must be uncalcinated (i.e., it must not be heat-treated prior to application)[31] and have a mean particle size below about 12 μm (i.e., food grade—see below). From Wikipedia
Wow, that's great info, thanks!!!
It's anti parasitic so it's used as a dewormer.
Ok, I'm going to try it on the thrip army invading my collection.
Once it gets wet it becomes ineffective so you may want to bottom water
Oohh, very important detail, thanks!
Yw. I already had DE for other things but I only tried it on my plants a couple of times and it was too messy for me lol. But good luck!
On the soil or on leaves too?
If you sprinkle it on the soil be sure you bottom water because it’s useless when wet.
All over the plant, leaves, branches everything. Some will automatically hit the soil. Use a squeezy ketchup bottle.,. It’s too fine to sprinkle by hand
Under the leaves and stems , everywhere including the soil top, thrips are mobile
Use a systemic pesticide and treat all your plants. The accumulation in the plant also kills the following generations that nest inside the tissue. Be sure to treat all plants and also spray the top layer of the soil. Its better than to spray endlessly with contact pesticides. Good luck!
This. Systemic granules + spraying down with jacks dead bug brew 1x a week for 3 weeks. Thrips will be gone. It is absolutely overblown how long the treatment or "battle" is. Go nuclear, get it over with and move on. You do this with ALL indoor plants, not just the one Infected. Neem doesn't work and will kill your plants before it kills off thrips. Predatory mites and other bugs won't eat every single thrips, and just one or two that gets away restarts the infection elsewhere in your house. The thrips life cycle lasts 3 weeks, that's why you spray once a week for three weeks. Adult thrips lay their eggs INSIDE leaf tissues. When the larva hatch, they suck on the fluids of their host plant. When they are ready to pupate, they drop to the soil and turn into adults. The adults either fly back up to the original host plant or go off searching for new plants. Systemic and a good pesticide like captain jacks dead bug brew will interrupt and stop the cycle. Again, you have to treat all plants.
Systemic is pretty much as US only thing, here in EU we cant do that. Nowhere to be sold. (Switzerland here for example, but same for many countries afaik) Im personally using the beneficial insects cause it’s been close to the only thing kinda working. Still quite expensive in the long run
Edialux conserve garden is available in the EU, and should be available in Switzerland and contains Spinosad. You can use it as a soil drench, and put it in a liquid concentration as a spray. Also apparantly KB multisect. (Am Swiss too, just Swiss american. Just asked my fam from switzerland about this.) Still a 3 week treatment plan with them, you just don't get the 2 month prevention of the Systemic.
Thats actually good to know. Im trying as much as i can but dealing with Bio things everywhere is starting to become a dumb fight. Sometimes you need the big guns ahah Will check your recommendations for sure to get rid of those guys for good !
Yeah, Thrips are absolutely a pain, and they do need big guns, or else they just constantly move to different placecs. Hopefully they work for you. I searched under Schweiz webpages and found them listed a few places, but I'm not too familiar with local shipping, and my schweizerdeutsche is horribad, since I never learned to read it properly.
Dont worry about schweizerdeutsch im in the french part of Switzerland ahah But yeah, i will definitely give it a look. I recently found NeemAzal-T/S. Im on week one with it, will see if it works in a way or not. Thabks for the recommendation though, I screenshotted your message ahah
Is that little guy in the corner real?
Haha…nah. But we leave him around the flat for guests to find sometimes. It’s the little things…
Best of luck! I finally won the battle after MONTHS. I ended up applying systemic granules and it helped so much
Release the predatory bugs! Best of luck, General
Can you say more? Where do you buy them?
Yeah! You can sprinkle some ambylesius mites or beneficial nematodes to help eat thrips and larvae off plants. I lived near a local gardenry to buy when I needed it, but they’re also sold online. I think i saw a mite-shaker on Amazon once.
Having fully conquered thrips many times (not just my own plants but I work as a plant rehabber), you have to use the tough stuff. Thrips have a complicated life cycle and need to be retreated for months, even ifyout think they are gone, they lay their eggs inside the plant and they will continue to come back. This is why a systemic is so important. Bonide systemic granuals is a great option. For a foliar spray, opt for something with spinosad. Skip neem, skip soap, these are ineffective, and sorry but skip predatory insects - you need to work fast with thrips and they just won't cut it. This is from 11 years of experience working in the plant world and 5 years specifically as a plant rehabber.
I agree, after trying neem, soap and other options I didn't notice any difference. Finally bought a very hardcore insecticide from Amazon and after a couple of treatments, no more thrips! And my plants survived ☺️
I got thrips and they killed more than half my collection. I didn’t want to try insecticides because I wanted to battle them a more natural way but failed. After a YEAR I decided to get houseplant granules. They’re like little tiny seed like rocks you sprinkle in your soil. I just sprinkled them right on top of the soil and water the top a little. Everytime you water your plants they absorb the granules. so when the thrips try to suck the life out of the plant they also suck the insecticide and it kills the thrips!!! I would recommend getting some houseplant granules.
i just lost the battle on my giant monstera that i’ve had for 5 years. it was months of a battle honestly. good luck soldier 🤍
Oh man. I’m so sorry for your loss! 😢
I discovered some thrips damage too this week and I had to do the same. I washed all my plants and swipe with a microfiber cloth. I want to buy neem oil but I don't know if it's really effective.
Neem oil killed my plants faster than the thrips did! I had thrips really bad and I magically and accidently got a predatory mite infestation so I just put all my pants together so the mites would spread. It took about 3 weeks before I saw no thrips and the mites hung around for another few weeks but then they vanished. That was a year ago and still no sign of thrip return! I recently bought a plant and found thrips when I brought it home, I read that humidity kills them so I put the plant in a plastic bag and left it in indirect light for 5 weeks. When I opened it up I found no thrips, but I did find mealybugs! So I took it out of the soil, washed the roots and submerged the whole plant in dish soap and rubbing alcohol water for 24h. That was 4 days ago and so far I haven't seen any pests. The plant is now sitting in a plastic cup with a tiny amount of water until I decide if I should risk keeping it. It's a beautiful Birkin.
Oh nice to know I wont try neem oil then
Godspeed friend! Lemme know how the Neem works out! 🖖🏽
I use and it works. Mix it with water and little bit of soap.
Neem did nothing for me, none of the chemical warfare I've done have worked
I’m currently in a same kind of war, I’ll be praying for your success comrade 🫡 May we both succeed in this awful war…
Just got some minute pirate bugs for my thrips.. FUCK THEM BUGSSSSSSS https://preview.redd.it/a0l25excgr7d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2b0f8bd24de495851815a315b4d6079fc77546ce Me cleaning yesterday. 😩
Just had this fight as well. Good luck to you!
https://preview.redd.it/qavek1b6xq7d1.jpeg?width=2160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2a15de5435bf7aac107f1e37f657f19e4d3cf569 Found them in here... in my office lol, no clue how they got in or how they followed me from home
No, seriously. Fuck. You. Thrips.
Check out Grandevo. We use it for commercial cannabis production and it destroys thrips and smells like smoked gouda Edit: we use it for a multitude of plant pests and have it part of our integrated pest management program.
I am so sorry. This is a hard hit. :(
Real
Good luck! 🙏💚
My bathroom looks like this sometimes, but I mainly struggle with spider mites
Just outside of frame: Hillary Clinton walking through the door looking stunned at the plants in the bath tub
Isolate for longer than you need!
I can't isolate plant. The biggest one got thrips. I want to cry
Hello fellow pink tub sufferer.
Spinosad
Buy ladybugs and mites. I had thrips and now they’re gone.
I feel your pain and I hate thrips as well. Get this product, Captain Jacks Deadbug Brew concentrate. You just dilute it with water (per gallon) , place in a spray bottle and spray the plant leaves above, under and on the stems. Once the thrips continue to try to eat the drain the plant of its energy, they will ingest the insecticide and die in a day or so. My experience using it, once I spray them the thrips walk around for a few seconds then stops completely. I wait until the insecticide dries on the plant and see if the thrips move. They just fall off 😂. There is a spray version of this if you don't feel like diluting the product yourself. [Captain Jacks Deadbug Brew Concentrate ](https://a.co/d/03l46qre) https://preview.redd.it/ghuu415qat7d1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6bd213f17be86bcf1739b8a37fe7216b541e1563
The trick is to alternate between pyrethrin, spinosad, and Neem to avoid them building an immunity. Bifen can be used as a broad spectrum around your whole property, but it is restricted so check your local regs. Once you have them under control, dichaetamous earth can help keep it that way, but it is not a good knockdown IMO. All of these can be implemented into IPM, but if you want to lower how often you're spraying, then introduce biologicals.
I'm with you. Those f#ckers!!! Destructive.
Just out of curiosity did you find actual thrips or did damage on plants tip you off? I keep trying to figure out if my plants are just stressed with watering/light/repotting or if I have a pest issue
Dr.zymes🤟🏻
Isolate and wash off any new plant properly as soon as you get it.
I had thrips 2 years in a row. The only effective solution that worked for me was apply Green lacewigs. 3 treatments 2 weeks apart. On the last treatment, I also applied sachets of nematodes. Good luck to all that are fighting this battle.
I feel ya, I'm battling spider mites. Treated them with Spinosad then cleaned them with isopropyl and dish soap solution. Seems to have done the job.
Looks more like a frog to me...
Bonide Insect Control Systemic Granules, 4 lbs. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BWZ9U8