Please see picture! (Sorry for the picture taken of a picture) Many VERY tiny whiteish bugs on table below newly bought houseplant and more similar crawling in soil. They are very small, close to 1 mm.
The ones that show up on the table don’t move much but some of them crawl around very slowly. The ones I saw in the potted soil look about the same but move faster and have slightly longer antennae.
I thought maybe root aphid larva but I repotted the plant and inspected the roots and found none of the fuzz or bigger fat aphids. Roots look healthy.
I thought springtails but these ones don’t seem to jump and they seem to only be below soil line.
I put our sticky traps in case they could fly but nothing appeared on them and I haven’t seen anything flying around! Nothing to be seen on the leaves of the plant and the plant shows no signs of distress right now.
Plant is quarantined but I would like to bring it out but I want to make sure this isn’t something that will infest and kill all my other plants. Any insight appreciated!! Thanks very much.
The ones that show up on the table don’t move much but some of them crawl around very slowly. The ones I saw in the potted soil look about the same but move faster and have slightly longer antennae.
I thought maybe root aphid larva but I repotted the plant and inspected the roots and found none of the fuzz or bigger fat aphids. Roots look healthy.
I thought springtails but these ones don’t seem to jump and they seem to only be below soil line.
I put our sticky traps in case they could fly but nothing appeared on them and I haven’t seen anything flying around! Nothing to be seen on the leaves of the plant and the plant shows no signs of distress right now.
Plant is quarantined but I would like to bring it out but I want to make sure this isn’t something that will infest and kill all my other plants. Any insight appreciated!! Thanks very much.
