7 Hydroponic Pests: How to Spot Them and Get Rid of Them

This Video is from the Youtube channel: “Proponics.”. 

The seven pests most likely to turn up in a hydroponic garden: aphids, fungus gnats, mealybugs, shore flies, spider mites, thrips and whiteflies. How to recognise each one, how to get rid of them (neem oil, insecticidal soap, sticky traps, predatory insects), and how to keep them out in the first place.

0:00 Pests can still get in
0:21 1. Aphids
0:56 2. Fungus gnats
1:15 3. Mealybugs
1:33 4. Shore flies
1:44 5. Spider mites
2:13 6. Thrips
2:47 7. Whiteflies
3:04 Getting rid of them
3:53 Keeping them out

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Image credits (Wikimedia Commons): black bean aphids by Sascha Kohlmann (CC BY-SA 2.0); fungus gnat by AfroBrazilian (CC BY-SA 3.0); fungus gnat larvae by Sciara fly fan (CC BY 4.0); shore fly by Alan Manson (CC BY 4.0); spider mites by Gilles San Martin (CC BY-SA 2.0); thrips damage on basil by Josef Schlaghecken (CC BY-SA 4.0); thrips by Dave Kirkeby (CC BY-SA 4.0); greenhouse whitefly by Dr. Guido Bohne (CC BY-SA 4.0); whiteflies by Pablo Oliveri, Pro Huerta (CC BY-SA 2.5). Thumbnail: aphid colony by Sanjay Acharya (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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