Root bug question. Are these rootbugs
 

No one can give me an awnser to what I am seeing. So I try you guys. Somehow you know a lot more then anyone else.

For 5 years I am having a plant that has some kind of root eating bug in the soil. The bugs are round, very small (no photo possible), they glimpse in the light and are very dark brown in color. They hate sunlight and only come to the surface at night. They start from the middle and go up laying eggs in tiny white balls of wool. (like the root mealy bug). They are extremely resistant to poison. They have imunnity to chlorocamphor, 4th generation pyrethroids and systemic poisons barely kills them. Repotting has no effect.

The strange thing is that after all these years no other plant has become infected by these ANNOYING little bugs.

I am certain they eat the roots since the plant has started looking bad since the infection and roots are being eaten away (glass pot).

Are these insects or are we talking about some sort of mite or spider. If someone knows what these things are I can make them a nice cocktail of poison and exterminate them once and for all. :evil:

Can't tell without a pic. But if you feel they're doing your plant harm, go for it. Nuke em'.

Sounds like scale, but without a foto I can't be certain.
You have to treat for several weeks if it is scale, or mealy's....they won't be killed with one pesticide application.

I disagree - scale don't move in response to light - but whole-heartedly agree with the treatment regimen. I always repeat treatment weeks for three- or four times, as that increases the likelihood of making contact with the bugs and gets the ones that hatch or mature after the last treatment.

Additionally, you might try to get an insect growth regulator, as the prevent maturation of all stages in the insects' life cycle, and no maturation leads to no reproduction, which ultimately leads to no more bugs.

I would also consider the possibility that it is the larvae that are eating the roots, not the adult bugs.

The reason I said scale was the tiny white balls of wool at the roots.....not the insect movement to light part....I should have been more exact.

Ray, you taught me the treatment regime and the joys of Enstar II! I will always be grateful for that. :bowing

Tess

K thank you all for the great responses I will look up some photo's of the bugs you mentioned and see if there are some similarity's to be found. Ill post as soon as I know more

Nope its not scale. Looked up a photo on wikipedia. Allthough the brown thingies look alot like what I have. I have never seen that horrible growsome big thing stated to be the female. My stomach nearly turned up side down imagining that something like that is living in one of my plants :O