#33584
March 1st, 2005 at 01:26 AM
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I have searched the web for this little bugger, but so far haven't come up with anything. I brought home a Ming Aralia a while back, and much to my dismay, noticed about 30 slow moving creatures living on the plant. There bodies are round, off-white and shiny, probably 2 centimeters in diameter, with teeny tiny legs. Naturally, I nuked them with Safer, and haven't seen them on the Aralia since. Lo and behold, I went out to pick some rosemary last night, and I saw the same exact bug on the plant, except for these are brown colored. I could start a pest museum with all my infestations. Any ideas?
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#33585
March 1st, 2005 at 01:38 AM
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Amy, my only suggestion would be to give the little buggers directions to Cindy's Slug Bar! (Sorry, Cindy, that just had to come out! )
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#33586
March 1st, 2005 at 01:50 AM
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i'm moving you to plant pests...
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#33587
March 1st, 2005 at 07:30 PM
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I could be wrong but it sounds like Termite larva.Termites will move into your Garden mulch if theres a lot of wood in it.thats just my guess.a photo would help. here is a site that might help you. http://www.pestdepot.net/pest_id.htm your friend in gardening.mike57
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#33588
March 2nd, 2005 at 01:16 AM
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hey mike, thanks for the link, but i didn't find a match(as far as i can tell) i just found some dead ones, but they don't show up when i take a pic. i looked at them through the microscope, and now i think it might be a perfectly round cocoon? i dunno, they are so small, like a pin head, it's hard to tell. i just thought it was weird that i had white ones inside, and brown ones outside.
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#33589
March 2nd, 2005 at 04:31 AM
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Remember that movie? Aliens.
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#33590
March 2nd, 2005 at 05:29 AM
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oh noooo! but cocoon was a happy movie, right? RIGHT? darn, those things are everywhere. well, if i don't show up here in the next few days, you'll know why...
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#33591
March 14th, 2005 at 08:26 PM
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Okay, time for someone to go back to school, or at least actually THINK before posting. I made a major goof on my original post. The pests are 1 millimeter, not 1-2 centimeters, and thank goodness for that, as if I found a bug that was 2 centimeters on my plant, I would have run screaming for the hills!
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#33592
March 15th, 2005 at 05:25 AM
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Amy, what about maggots? :p
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#33593
March 15th, 2005 at 05:53 AM
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No way, uh huh, no how. I don't do maggots. If I so much have even thought that it could have been remotely possible that perhaps they were maggots, the whole plant would be bye-bye. But thanks for trying!!!
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#33594
March 15th, 2005 at 09:03 PM
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Two words... (I am an)Imbecile & (duh, it's) Aphids.
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#33595
March 15th, 2005 at 11:28 PM
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LOL!!! I was going to ask if they were aphids... but I though, "Nah, Amy knows what aphids look like."
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#33596
March 16th, 2005 at 12:53 AM
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NO! Not funny, not funny at all! Okay, well, it's kinda funny. I'm such a dork; I have only seen black aphids before. Although, I'm stoked you thought that I knew, that means I'm faking it pretty well!
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#33597
March 16th, 2005 at 07:12 AM
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OK... what's particularly funny to me is that I've only seen green aphids but I knew they were other colors... and since you'd seen two colors, that was my first thought. But like I said, I figured you HAVE to have seen one at some point... OK. Maybe it wasn't THAT funny. Maybe I'm just losing my mind.... :rolleyes:
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#33598
March 16th, 2005 at 07:32 AM
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well sorry i didn't see this post sooner. On Ming the 2 main pests are aphids and mealybugs. Aphids usually attack the new growth. I also just had an outbreak of aphids on one of my rosemary varieties. I am testing a new product for house plants from Pharm Solutions on it. So far so good. I am also testing it on soft scale... we will see how it goes! Good luck and keep on top of the aphids... or they will come back
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#33599
March 19th, 2005 at 03:48 PM
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It sounds like you may have pear slugs, which take on a different color depending on what they happen to be eating at the time. Not all that common as a indoor pest, but also not unheard of either. Here is a link: http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/INSECT/05560.html
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