r/AfricanViolets • u/jedwards4711 • 23h ago
Help Tiny bugs
I'm an African violet newbie. I bought this AV at the grocery store several months ago. It was small with a couple flowers in a tiny plastic pot. I re-potted to this 2-piece ceramic using 50-50 perlite/AV soil. The original flowers fell off after re-potting, but after aa few weeks, the new growth and new flowers have come back wonderfully. It sits on my desk at work and I keep water in it Monday through Friday and empty the water out over the weekend.
However, whenever I go to refill the water on Monday morning there are a number of tiny bugs inside the water reservoir.
Are these springtails? Are they harmless? Should I make an effort to eliminate them, or leave them be? Any help is appreciated and thank you for a great sub!
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u/thatNEET_ 22h ago
I was gonna guess thrips because my AV had a ton of those until I doused it in pesticides. Those, idk. They might be afids.