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Whoa Folks! Hold on just a mo! Provado is a neonicotinoid, it's pretty potent and long-lasting, and it kills bees. Well, if the plants are on a windowsill, you probably don't get many bees coming in there? It will get into the nectar and in that way the bees will be poisoned (we have a bee crisis in this country, like in many other countries) It's worth at least knowing about SB Plant invigorator. It is not a poison, it acts physically (so it's also not systemic) It kills many small pests, but does not harm bees, ladybirds, etc. It kills aphids pretty quickly. It is also a foliar feed. To eradicate an aphid infestation, in my experience you may have to spray 2 or 3 times in one day. This is possibly because in "good" conditions they reproduce every hour and are born pregnant. You have to spray it very thoroughly all over every surface, nook, and cranny of the plant. Very important - It is never a good idea to use pesticides at anything below recommended strength. This can leave a few bugs alive, which can then go on to manifest resistance in their descendants. Like not taking your full dose of antibiotics. If in any doubt, it's better to go a bit above the recommended strength to be sure of a complete effect. You can get SB Plant Invigorator on Amazon and eBay.

Thanks Tropicbreeze. Some other responses have suggested too much humidity and/or lack of air movement. One responder suggested using an application of salicylic acid solution to strengthen its immune system. I think the mix it's in is probably too dense.

Got a convincing answer from "Entomology", Facebook - Hypoaspis mites - https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheEntomologyGroup/permalink/10155968915033393/

I grow mine in leafmould between tufa rocks.

I can confirm I have found my first slaughtered Brevipalpus - on the N. m. v. globosa, which was sprayed first - https://photos.app.goo.gl/2QYIQcNRK1y9adb93

Zerbirus, can I ask, how did you manage to get hold of this information? I researched about northiana, and only found the "constant seepage" info. Here's mine. It's been growing well for more than a year. Weirdly it produced larger pitchers first, each new one getting smaller. But it looks very healthy. Yes, I cut out the growing tip after I broke it! https://photos.app.goo.gl/3qHsYRnMhzMtBenv1 https://photos.app.goo.gl/AxrWs5IVmlvTCizC2

Is there one simple reason for the issues with this leaf?..... https://photos.app.goo.gl/YrGwtbDjDVtW4ent1 Thank you for any help.......

Hold on Zerbirus, I've got N. northiana, and I've never let it dry out in any way. Check this out - scroll down to "Habitat and Ecology" - The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species - Nepenthes northiana

They really do look very crispy........

I'm saying photo 1 might be Bloody Mary, and photo 4 looks more so like Bloody Mary. I forgot to mention, my best educated guess is pumice by itself will not be soft enough for the roots - they are delicate, if plastic pots are moved it might be damaging - and it probably doesn't hold enough moisture.

This is my twopennethworth - Bloody Mary has ampularia as one parent, which is a lowland species, so there's a need for warmth there. From my (limited) experience with Nepenthes, moving them in and out and here and there doesn't suit them well, better to try them in one spot and wait, patiently, often they get used to it. Lastly, Several growers say they get used to many levels of humidity, including low.

Ok, I didn't rinse for 20 minutes. I take many warnings as over-cautious, not accurate (which is a pain, the over-cautious ones make you nonchalant about the accurate ones) I do most of the time tell my customers I mite get to them tomorrow - does that make me at risk??

Ok, updates..... Photos of the plants in that spot.... ONLY the 2 Nepenthes in the first picture actually clearly had the mites, the other plants were isolated and sprayed as a precaution... https://photos.app.goo.gl/UFxdZg1oVnfjv9jp1 https://photos.app.goo.gl/xagblmQzkXjpDTtr2 https://photos.app.goo.gl/niFl0O4UjroqlvUv1 This the remains of the worst affected leaves, after chopping them off, putting them in a cup, and pouring boiling water over them... Then I removed all dead leaves and pitchers. Again I used this, plus SB Plant Invigorator.... https://photos.app.goo.gl/40MYDExfulcjY3LV2 At the moment they are all in quarantine.

Yep, it's like looking for hen's teeth. But there are some countries where it might just be available. This might be a good place to start - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100006887947758 . They do export, and can provide phyto certificate. I know at least one person in Germany who ordered from them and was very happy with what he got. Other than that, if you just do a facebook search for it, you might just get lucky!

Whoops! Don't I feel silly now! I obviously got an attack of TLDNR (Too Long, Did Not Read)!

Wow, wow, and wooowwww!!! Bletilla?

Thanks Pirks This is actually the clearest photo I've managed to get - https://photos.app.goo.gl/IeDgOQRKxtyt7l972 I got the plants from Aylett Nurseries, St Albans, Herts. The thing is the mites only became apparent several weeks after I bought the Nepenthes "sanguinea", so I felt I could not assume they came in with the plant, but maybe they did? This garden centre is without fail the best one for miles around here, it's the best one that I have ever been to. I go there very often. Just checkout the Google reviews. Their supplier for these plants is Floramedia....

This is great Tropicbreeze! Thank you for posting all this, and those bits of information about native habitat conditions are like gold dust! Off topic for this sub-forum, but still on weird plants, have you ever tried growing Platycerium quadridichotomum? It grows in nature with a completely dry season and preserves its tissues like Xerophyta and some Selaginella, them "resurrects" itself when rain returns. It looks completely dead in the dry season.

Well, Miracle Gro are saying those mites are probably "fermentation mites", but if they eat yeast, why are they running around everywhere and why are there so many of them? I have literally seen them do nothing except run around. Anyway, there's been a bothersome development - I've just found Brevipalpus on a little Nepenthes x hookeriana in the other corner of the room. It is pretty weird. No sign of them on anything in between. In all they have only appeared on 2 small Nepenthes and one VFT, all from the same source. So I cut back all adjacent foliage and submerged it in boiling water, and will blitz the plants with the triple pesticide this weekend. Here's a video and some photos of them this time - https://photos.app.goo.gl/rMuLJVE5JlbRkXvz1 https://photos.app.goo.gl/2ALMbpM9IVz38Ny83 https://photos.app.goo.gl/v9ETxGjHJb8a8oyE3 https://photos.app.goo.gl/vHu2F1IDXxUc9cMJ2 Here you can see that yellowish shrivelled ill look the mites cause - https://photos.app.goo.gl/XtIMpmuGS2UEUe0P2 Any problems seeing the photos?

I have it from Miracle Gro that fast moving beige coloured mites running around on their compost are probably fermentation mites. This is in relation to my thread about Brevipalpus mites...... Does anybody have any detailed knowledge of fermentation mites, or links to it? I can find almost nothing useful about them. Why would mites who eat yeast be running around frantically? Are they chasing after it??? https://photos.app.goo.gl/U7lW701lOD8hAJ4u1 https://photos.app.goo.gl/oOTGXdzzbZMr0Dz73

So here is something really ...... Cool? Amazing? Frightening?........ I noticed today a whole little forest of movement in one of my pots, and it was an army of fast moving beige mites. They were on some compost that I had only planted up a week ago. Upon inspection I found more in other pots. I found them first completely on the other side of the room to where I first hung the Amblyseius sachets, and there's hundreds of them! I think they are Amblyseius, but it is surprising, if they are, to find so many of them on the other side of the room where there are no mites for them to feed on. Here's videos - any ideas? https://photos.app.goo.gl/s0EawANqS6L643b23

Yeps, I'll let yous know. I mean, to the naked eye they are literally the tiniest red dot, but It is just about possible for me to distinguish them, then get out my magnifier to confirm it. I have not seen any more since I removed the pitcher on which I found 1. Now it is just a waiting game..... I still don't get why the photos are invisible. Maybe something to do with the new privacy laws?

I have no idea why that happens........ Those urls usually work.......

Hang on, no pics? That's odd, I can see them. Have you got anything? url? Anything at all? How about this link?.... https://photos.app.goo.gl/zI8CH59El2bcTNqi1 The truth is that I have not found any mites, or eggs, since the last single mite I found on the pitcher of this N. m. v. globosa. So right now I do not know if that was literally the last one, or if some more are slowly multiplying somewhere else. I just wanted to conclusively wipe them out on this one plant, I think I'll wait to see if they show themselves on any of the others that were close to it before I nuke them also. This Brevipalpus is a slow grower and spreader. I've only just sprayed it, this evening!