I need help with identification

Budzbuddha said:

Apparently a springtail larva my man.

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Budzbuddha said:

Apparently a springtail larva my man.

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jondamon said:

Huge numbers of springtails can be detrimental to young plants.

but they are a part of the soil web feeding on decaying matter such as rotting leaves, dead roots etc and fungi.

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Hollatchaboy said:

Cool man, my plant isn't young anymore she's actually kind of a beast now. Lol. The problem for me is, I don't know what to consider huge numbers to be. 1000,10000,100000? The plant looks good, so I'm guessing they got plenty of other shit to eat. Lol

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jondamon said:

Creating more wet and dry cycles (growing method dependant) can help to lower numbers.

like I said they are beneficial and only cause problems for the roots of small young plants.

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Hollatchaboy said:

I'm in an earthbox so dry cycles don't really happen. Funny thing is, I've not seen 1 fungus gnat. Usually I would've seen quite a few by now.

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jondamon said:

Well, rest assured they aren’t detrimental to your grow.

Personally I hate anything crawling that I didn’t put there lol

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Hollatchaboy said:

I feel the same way but they come from out of nowhere it seems! Lol

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jondamon said:

Not really out of nowhere.

theyre Some of the most abundant creatures on earth, athropods and hexopods lol.

you can always find some living in your home somewhere. Lol.

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BlandMeow said:

Funny, I just noticed my yellow sticky cards don't have any fungus gnats but had little specks Al around. I thought it was the fans blowing around top layer of soil, but putting them under 120x, looks like springtail to me.

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