It’s been around since December. I’ve tried weekly sprays of pyretriner, yellow sticky traps, Lavender/Peppermint oil vapor mixes, and recently full costings of diatomaceous earth as well.
None of it has worked at eliminating them…
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What you want is called Spinosad. It’s marketed under other names, but it will deal with them immediately and decisively. Can be hard to find, when I needed it there was a local grow shop aimed at weed growers that sold it in small bottles, only a small amount added to your watering can is needed.
Kills every stage of life, which is the downfall of many bug killers - gets the adults but not the eggs. This stuff is a thrip nuclear option.
I’ll try looking for this. At this point I’m considering the mites and this as well. Do I spray it on the plant? I don’t directly water the monstera
I never spray, just adding to your watering can in the correct amount does it.
Mites are a different matter though, Spinosad doesn’t do those I don’t think. When I got mites I killed everything, sanitized, let it sit for a few months, before starting again. They’re the bedbugs of indoor growing.
I meant the predatory mites others mentioned
Ahh, well, they’re kind of an ongoing thing, they don’t get everything, they die off or leave before the whole job is done, so I ended up in a cycle of buying them, keeping the spidermites from totally fouling the process, but never getting rid of them entirely. If Thrips are your problem, Spinosad is your solution, end of sentence.
You can buy bags of predatory mites that feed on the thrips and then die off
It’s the only thing that’s worked for me for longer than a few weeks. I’ve only had to use them twice in about 5 years
I’ll try that next. Is there a specific name for the mite?
The company I use in the UK is called Bioline and after looking it up it’s the same mites that the other commentator’s link mentions as being the non fast reproducing ones
That’s not necessarily to say avoid the other ones, I didn’t know they even existed as an option until just now, so I don’t know about their efficacy
Swirskii mites.
Monstera*
Lmao I just noticed the typo
I’ve dealt with them in the past by carrying the plant into a tiny room and spraying the air with raid (not directly onto the plant) This needs to be repeated few times every 3 days or so to kill the entire population. Predatory mites should work as well but I’ve personally not had success with them
