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I just received this hamata via mail a couple days ago and I noticed it’s COMPLETELY infested with these little grey insects. Are these springtails? It looks like there’s a couple different types of pests here. Maybe around 3. I saw a abnormally big insect and I tried to grab it, and it flew off. That one definitely wasn’t a springtail. Do you guys know what these are and if a couple treatments of neem will kill them? Thanks.

This is a better picture. Maybe sowbugs or pillbugs?

Did you take that with a macro lens? Springtail larvae look similar but they are extremely small.

Adriana wrote: ↑Fri Sep 04, 2020 10:22 pm Did you take that with a macro lens? Springtail larvae look similar but they are extremely small.

It was just my phone lens, all the way zoomed in though.

Springtail larvae are most likely, that's what they look like and they love a nice wet medium. If you plant a utric in the same pot it will mop them up If they bother you, you can rinse really well and pot in fresh media.

Adriana wrote: ↑Wed Sep 09, 2020 12:18 am Springtail larvae are most likely, that's what they look like and they love a nice wet medium. If you plant a utric in the same pot it will mop them up If they bother you, you can rinse really well and pot in fresh media.

Thanks for the reply! I’ve also seen these little beetle like insects crawling around, I’m not sure if they are springtails because they’re even smaller than the other pests. Springtails aren’t bigger when they’re larvae are they?

Honestly it's hard to tell because I can't see the scale. The springtail larvae you'd be able to see move with the naked eye, but to distinguish features you'd need magnification. They look like this: https://www.empirepestcontrol.co.uk/wp- ... ivalis.jpg

Beetles, I dunno. Aphids have distinctive backward-facing hooks on their back.

I would probably take everything apart and submerge in water for ~15 min and then repot in fresh media.

Adriana wrote: ↑Fri Sep 11, 2020 11:24 pm Honestly it's hard to tell because I can't see the scale. The springtail larvae you'd be able to see move with the naked eye, but to distinguish features you'd need magnification. They look like this: https://www.empirepestcontrol.co.uk/wp- ... ivalis.jpg

Beetles, I dunno. Aphids have distinctive backward-facing hooks on their back.

I would probably take everything apart and submerge in water for ~15 min and then repot in fresh media.

Those are actually exactly what they look like haha. It’s really hard to see them with the naked eye but I can tell those are them. Those are springtails right?

yes those are springtail larvae in that photo

Adriana wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 9:11 pm yes those are springtail larvae in that photo

Thanks for the info! Will neem oil do the job?

I think so ? But you can also plant an utricularia, or just change potting medium, rinsing the plant first to decrease numbers. They eat fungus in the soil, not the plant, so some people actually buy them to put in terraria as they're considered beneficial.

I would consider not taking action against them but the thing is that there are just SO many of them that I have to. I don’t want them to reproduce anymore. There are easily hundreds maybe thousands in one pot and they’re starting to wander the terrarium. Sadly I have to go exterminator mode.

Springtails. Hold your pot upside down (drain the pitchers first lol) and then tap them into other pots. I love em. They keep terraria nice.

So I have a few things to say about this:

1. They are most certainly springtails in the poduromorpha group

2. When you remove them, can I have the culture? I'm an avid breeder of many kinds of springs but have yet to get any poduromorphs close to yours