Fight little white springtail animals in plants and pottery earth - 4 simple methods
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Your house plants and flower pots or their soil is infested with small, elongated white animals? When you blow on them, the critters jump around? These are springtails. Shopping list:
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i got so creeped out when i saw them in my plant's soil cuz i didn't know what they were. Thank you for clarifying!
Me too
You are an absolute rookie these are beneficial insects that eat algae and bacteria. You’ll find these insects in every healthy soil cross the world including the healthiest oils like the old growth forest please do my research and stop miss informing people thank you
Me too my ground is infested
I have a army
They saved my plants from root rot. The more the merrier, don't kill them! I keep a colony of them separate so I can top up my plants when they're looking thin on the ground. They're a Godsend 🙌 🙏
There a pest they keep eating my seedlings
@Cash Quest probably that’s what I had problems with they would find there way into the shell once the root comes out and eat it making it rot before it could open
@@KAYLEBHD they like seedlings but not more established plants. I just watched a few videos where people took old yogurt containers and cut the bottom and then placed around the seedling to protect it from these guys...because apparently they burrow but they don't tunnel and also they can't get suction on the plastic to climb
Springtails eaten every each root of my plant orchids cherry trees peach trees.they bitten and made the black fungus in the root let my plants in pot all dead all the seed I planted just biten by the tiny pets
Can you send me some? I really want these guys in my pots. My soil looks so barren and dead.
Springtails are not only harmless, they are one of the root factors of healthy living soil. They consume rotting material and spores and mold and transform them into perfect soil for the plants. They reduce the risk of root rot. If the plant gives reason to believe that they will thrive in the pot, I purposely add springtails to keep the plant healthy. They do not leave the pot, and even if they did they would either just die or find a wet moldy spot in the house and consume the mold there, without doing any harm whatsoever. They are really very lovable little creatures. :)
@AndreasGiesen Finally!! A commenter that has done the research and experience what a wonder these little creatures are 🤩
Personally learned about them while building my first terrarium.
Repotted some plants with springtails a while back and they are thriving. Of course gave them compost in the soil mix and dry dead leaves I leave it atop the soil. 🌺
Springtails are the last invert you want to eliminate in your soil. They’re incredibly beneficial.
Are they still beneficial if there's too many? Some of my strawberry got springtails on the roots
@@masyan3457 you can never have too many springtails!
@@thermobotanics thank you for the response, it's been bothering me for quite some time.
@@thermobotanics
Actually you can, not because the springtails themselves are bad but because it indicates a lack of diversity within her soil biom.
You cannot reduce soil health down to a single organism.
Soil ecologies are the most complex and diverse habitat systems on the planet. You have to adress the intial conditions that cause turbulence within complex systems. Or else dysbiosis will occur & no matter how benifical- every species has the potential to be a consquencial effect of said turbulence.
Such as over population of springtails in the rhizosphere of Maza's strawberries.
@@masyan3457
I recommend finding woodchip that's been innoculated with king stropharia fungi, also known as wine cap mushrooms.
Once your mulch is established- ferment some banana peels with molasses after 7 days start feeding it into the soil. This will create a ground work architecture for the soils ecology- springtails will go after the fungal hyphae & yeast cells. Wine caps will create a conected soil ecology between the rhizosphere of different plants in your system while it feeds on the bacteria culture from your ferment.
All of this will help direct the springtails away from the roots of your strawberries while the fungal network itself will act as additional protection.
This is all an over simplified explanation & while it may sound complicated- I promise its really simple in practice.
people are buying springtail , yet you are killing it , lol
I tried putting baking powder and instead of killing springtails it killed my plant. Only later I googled and it turns out baking powder is toxic for plants. It was really hard to remove it from the soil too.
Baking soda not baking powder.....
I was trying to figure out what these were in my plants today! Thanks so much!!
Thanks for the tips. My entire house is infested with springtails. They are black with little antenas and jump when I try to kill them. The soil around my house is also infested. I’ll be calling pest control and will try to eliminate outside and in.
Thank you for video. My rose died and yes I over watered because it was so hot. I finally dug it up and seen those bugs. I freaked out then was led to your video. I'll leave it for now and monitor the area before I plant something else
“I need to pay my Porsche” hahahaha. I loved the baking soda is from Edeka because I am in Germany now and it is exactly the one I will use.
Thanks!
Edeka FTW! :)
I guess this video, like he said at the start, is for infestations, in small or reasonable amount they are not harmful and can help your plant.
When I pot a plant in new soil, I add Springtails to prevent mold and gnats.
I never hurt my springtails. They're useful and harmless to the plant.
eating heck out of my peppers ❤☮❤
They destroyed my peppers
They ate my seedlings :)))))
Hi! I'm a Mycologist with a background in evolutionary ecology.
I focus alot on soil biology in bioremeditation work
It's not that simple, for the sake of saving me some time on articulation here is a section from
wiki- Eating behavior:
"Specific feeding strategies and mechanisms are employed to match specific niches. Herbivorous and detritivorous species fragment biological material present in soil and leaf litter, supporting decomposition and increasing the availability of nutrients for various species of microbes and fungi. Carnivorous species maintain populations of small invertebrates such as nematodes, rotifers, and other collembolan species. Springtails commonly consume fungal hyphae and spores, but also have been found to consume plant material and pollen, animal remains, colloidal materials, minerals and bacteria."
The issue isn't the springtails, as they are just responding to a lack of biodynamic ecology within the soil.
If they are going after plant tissue it usally means there are not enough food resources or predators within their enviroment.
I clicked on this video because I kinda figured there would be this misconception.
There is a really easy solution to this: cultivate a diverse soil microbiota.
Start by making sure you have a thick mulch around your plants. Wood chip, straw, barkdust, all work well. This will add additional trophic layers for different organims to colonize and will help regulate the enviroment while protecting microbes from the UV of the sun.
I reccomend innoculating that mulch with king stropharia fungi, this will faccilitate an architecture for the soils biom.
Then use, EM, or effect microbes. These are facultative microbes commonly used in food ferments like sourdough or beer.
Lactobacilli bacteria or saccharomyces yeast to name a few.
This will help provide both food and compitition for the spring tails, plants will uptake these microbes as endophytes during the Rhizophagy cycle,colonizing plant tissues making them more resistant to pest damage.
When you set the right initial conditions, spring tails are completely harmless and are a critical compotent in creating stable soil ecosystems.
But like any organism if the tori cycle for resources and reproduction lacks other interactions in their enviroments- their populations explode and they can become an issue.
This is true for any organism however.
One of the worst famines in world history happened after the CCP, chinese communist Goverment, held a campaign to kill insectivorous birds. Because they would sometimes eat the grains as well. When the birds were gone this caused turbulence within locust populations which exploded and stripped a large section of Asia of their food resources.
Ecology is a perspective that focuses on whole systems.
So it isn't the springtails which are the root cause of your peppers problems- it's your total soil health.
Hello! I recently found some of these little guys in some of my indoor plants (peace lily, neon pothos, and diffenbachia). I am scared they will start eating my plants soon since the population seems really high in two of my plants. Should I get rid of them, or try a soil ecosystem? I should mention all those plants are potted in 4-6 inch pots, not sure if that matters.
Thank u so much this was exactly what I needed it is sometimes hard to find a specific helpful video so thanks I also enjoyed your humor n personality do more I love plants
Thanks for video. Funny and very helpful. :-) I took a slow-mo video of them this morning jumping all over the surface of one small planter. They came in on some grocery store vegetables - - I just started re-growing the vegetable scraps 24 hours previous. Organic produce often has tiny hitch-hikers that only get slowed down temporarily in refrigeration apparently. I'd seen gnats when washing produce before, but never thought about the problem of pests "coming back to life" and giving me trouble this way. Not thinking about the pest possibilities, I put the veggie cuttings next to my veggie seedlings. I had to assume all were infected and threw out most of them (washed a few very good seedlings roots in water and potted up in new soil and container). Just praying they didn't get to my houseplants. Your video methods will be employed if the houseplants show signs. Thanks so much for sharing.
And they explode... pop!!
Love it 😀 thanks mate 👍
Why? Springtails will est fungus and decaying matter
Hey, thanks for your video! quick question: I think I have springtails according to the description, but I can only see them at the bottom of the pot (I see them in the water that drains out thorugh the draining hole when I water the plants). So I wonder if they would get to eat the baking soda in the surface, or should I also sprinkle some of it in the plates under the pots, any thoughts? thanks!
Baking powder or baking soda??? 🙃
PS: When you said baking POWDER- but then said baking SODA - I suspect you might really mean baking powder. In the US, baking soda is just bicarbonate of soda. To leaven baked items it needs to mix with an acid (lemon juice or cream of tartar for example). Baking POWDER does not need an acid added, as the manufacture sells it with one in the mixture already. When you said the powder expands when wet - I realized you really meant baking POWDER but not baking soda. So anyone who wants to use it for getting rid of springtails - probably want to use baking POWDER but not baking soda. ;-)
SIR MY PLANTS ARE IN A POT THEY ARE JASMINE AND BOUNGOVILLAS SAME RED VERY LITTLE BAGS ARE EATING THE ROOTS THEY KILLED FOUR OF MY PLANTS I NEED YOUR HELP KINDLY I ASK THANKS
Basic needs for all houseplants - light, air, water, nutrients, springtails. Dont eliminate them. Atleast save the soil in a container so you can put them back in once you regret, when finding out how awesome theese little guys are for the well being of your plants 💪
Springtails eaten every each root of my plant orchids cherry trees peach trees.they bitten and made the black fungus in the root let my plants in pot all dead
They are killing my plant cause I was infested with them in my pot. They ate my root system up and now my plant is dying, so sad.
@@WillieWhale You need to administer the amount and interval between waterings. Your plants died from rootrot. Springtails do not eat roots.
@@euching You need to administer the amount and interval between waterings. Your plants died from rootrot. Springtails do not eat roots.
How about there in my sink...help..
you must have a nutrient imbalance or pH issue. Collembola is beneficial for the rhizosphere.
Thank you
Why would you kill them? They're crazy beneficial
True cinnamon on top of the soil?
I'm not sure if that's what I'm dealing with or not but I sure hope that's all it is. I ordered some nematodes so thanks for the video!!!
Thank you very much for this! I will try it all now
I hope it solves your problems. Let me know in the comments!
Hey did U get result??
@@MarYam-wr1li Hi there! I decided to convert my my into a semi hyro system instead
We raise springtails for our Isopod colonies. We just transfer to new colonies.
Thank you! I’ve been reading that they aren’t *too* harmful but they killed one of my plants altogether, nearly killed a Donkey’s tail, and have been living kind of peacefully with my Pothos. I’m going to start over with my soil, cleaning my pots and trying again. Thank you for this info!
It sounds like there are other issues you need to investigate, springtails should cause no harm to plants, and feed on things that harm plants
Springtails had nothing to do with the plants dying off,,, they will eat the rotting debris from it, so I can see how you thought they killed it but in truth an outside element was the cause,,, tap water is the common killer,,, rain water or distilled water is best
I’m trying to figure out how to get rid of little black worms with legs in my house plants. Any ideas? Thanks.
I can’t tell if I have this or thrips babies in soil!! Please someone help
If they "stick" to the plants, probaly aphids, mites or thrips. If they generally stay in the soil, probably colembolans (also known as Springtails)
Thank you 😊
Why would anyone suggest eliminating springtails??? They are like the lifeblood of a healthy living soil! I would suggest adding them if you don't have them. Would not hurt to add springtails, earthworms and isopods to your soil mix for a dynamic bio living soil.
What about neem seed meal? Or is that completely different?
They eat root destroying fungus, if you have a ton than you need them.
Springtails are harmless, why kill them?
Hi, I had infestation of springtails and I used silica powder(only works if soil kept dry). Springtails don't completely disappear. They come back when you start watering. I called a shop selling nematodes and they said they have never heard nematodes eating springtails. I am thinking of buying but would like to know if it is a fact, if yes then which nematodes?
I will really appreciate a reply. Thank you 😊
@Cash Quest I have left them alone and learning to live with them.
Good video
springtails are beneficial also to eat mould so that if there is too much water it causes them to eat mould from plants (but not fast so bare this in mind)
Don’t kill them! They also self regulate their community based on available food.
I am dealing with an issue inside of my terrarium. I have 2 terrariums. 1holds anoles and a tree frog and the other holds a turtle. I need an effective way to treat the live plants that will not harm the animals. Any ideas would be appreciated. Judgement and negativity will be respectfully overlooked. Thank you.
I actually have a colony of springtails and everytime I make a terrarium I add some to it. ESPECIALLY if it's an enclosed terrarium. Without the springtails, an enclosed moist terrarium would be overrun with mold.
If I get any mold that's visible, I take it as a sign that I didn't add enough springtails and I add a little bit more.
So if you already have some springtails in your terrarium, that's excellent. They will keep it fresh and healthy since they eat mold, algae, and decaying plant matter and also are harmless to plants. Rather they're beneficial to them.
Probably confusing mites with springtails.
For mites there is a published article about the efficacy of adding pea flour in small doses to the substrate (better used in the feeder insect colonies, not on the terrarium itself I would suggest), you should look into it.
Although, if the mite infestation gets out of control in the terrarium, the best option is probably to get rid of the substrate, desinfect the terrarium, and everything else and basically start fresh from there.
Springtails will actually help to outcompete the mites so, the more the better.
Hope this helps
Hahaha i need to pay my porch brilliant information video
Thank you sir 👍
Did any of this work for you??
I have springtails that climb all over my garden furniture or anything I leave out on the garden. My garden is fully decked in a modern style but these springtails are a nightmare.
Are you certain they're springtails? It doesn't sound like springtail behaviour unless the area in which you live is very humid. They breathe with gills, and so require a moist environment.
@@fattymcbastard6536 I’m assuming they are as they jump when touched. They jump so far it’s like the disappear. They are about 1 millimetre long and smaller.
@@tundeuk Well then my only suggestion is to quick watering so much, or at least adjust the schedule so that the garden is dry as possible during the times you wish to go out and enjoy it. When everything is moist, there's going to be a lot of evaporation, raising the humidity near ground level, which allows the springtails to come out and "explore." If you can let the soil surface, and other surfaces dry out, the springtails will work their way back into the soil seeking the moisture beneath.
Do you have an open-type compost bin?
These are usually perfect breeding grounds for springtails, and then you spread your compost around the garden, causing an explosion of the population.
Of course whether or not there's a correlation is just my speculation, but perhaps if you composted "hot" like in one of those enclosed compost tumblers, then you could at least rule out your compost as the source of the infestation.
Something else that springs to mind (pun fully intended) is the use of bark mulch as a top layer in the garden. Springtails love all the protection for their eggs provided by the nooks and crannies in the fibrous splintery wood, especially in wood that resists decay so that the eggs don't rot away with it.
Perhaps you use charcoal in the garden for pH control? Charcoal provides the PERFECT environment for springtail reproduction (more so than raw wood), which is why I culture springtails on charcoal.
What else??? Hmmm. Oh, did you know they float? This means they're easily separated by flooding their environment. You could partially fill a bucket of water, then sprinkle in a shovel load of substrate, give it a good swish around, and all the springtails will blanket the surface of the water for your disposal. I realize this isn't very practical, as you can't treat the entire garden this way, but perhaps if you moved to compost teas instead of whole compost, you might be able to benefit?
It's important to bear in mind they thrive on yeast. So if you're one of these gardeners who occasionally feed a mild molasses solution, or other sweetener, you might wanna cut that out. Fruit skins in your compost will provide a lot of yeast for them too.
Well that's about all I can think of. Your best is to switch to a cactus garden, and never water again, lol. Seriously though, you might wanna consider working to replace the plants in the garden with drought-tolerant varieties, just so you can allow the ground to dry out. Confine your water-loving plants to planters, and the springtails will be confined to the planters too. Let everything surrounding them dry out.
Good luck!
Yeah
TBH I culture spring tails, rolly polly's, centipedes and millepedes. I keep really small millipedes and centipedes (1 inch to half an inch) millepedes and springs are harmless and will eat mold. Centipedes eat helpful animals like spring tales and soil mites.
dont kill them, they are helpful!
That’s very useful
The only reason I would be annoyed with springtails would be if I had a mushroom farm and I still would kill them
I not positive, but I think my miniture gecko is eating springtails from my potted plants.
I keep a worm bin. I know everyone is saying these disgusting little white jumpers are beneficial, however, I have noticed that there are almost no worm cocoons since this infestation began. I have to wonder if the springtails are killing off the European Night Crawler cocoons.. Makes me want to eliminate the springtails.
Probably a mite infestation, not springtails...
They are good for the soil don't kill them
Whyyy would you want to kill them?!?!?
I have some in my cannabis garden I got totally freaked out when I first seen them.
Springtails are your friends.
Not mine
NEVER kill springtails
I like this guy although nematodes take forever … get rove beetles for that as well. Yet so yiur implying the sulfur in the match is the reaction? Or what is the reaction that occurs. As far as neem …. Eh your gonna burn your plant use hydrogen peroxide
I think I have soil mites. I have tried diatomaceous earth, activated charcoal, beneficial nematodes, organic pesticide at max concentration, detergent solution, peroxide solution, and two repottings. Thanks for your shitty humor. You got any suggestions for really lively mites?
What do they look like and do the bite?
What about, if I only put Baking Soda/Bicarbonate of Soda?
Thabks for the tips & I appreciate your shitty humor 😆
Im glad you said mathes
great😅
Emilegater?? Do you mean an emulsifier? So the neem oil can mix with water??? Dish soap is great, and organic soap is even better if you want to be 100% organic.
Anyone battling any plant eating pest outbreak, i have a good recipe for you...... Add 1 cigarette or a large pinch of tobacco, a good pinch of black pepper, 5-20ml of neem oil and a drop of dish soap(Neem not really needed but if you've got it you may as well add it) and add a pinch of garlic and chilli powder, flakes (or fresh blitzed in a blender), and add that to 1 litre of boiling water, or however much your spray gun holds. Leave it to steep until the mixture is slightly warm/cool. Then put it through a coffee filter, making sure the neem has emulsified and is not floating on the surface if you add it. Wack it in your spray gun and spray away. This will kill pretty much every pest, and it also works as a soil soak if you have too many fungus gnats and any other soil born pest. I've been using this for the past 30 years. Use twice a week for 2 weeks and see how well it works.
Only found this channel by chance, and i'm now a new sub.
Idk but I found a brownish larvae lookin thing in my soil idk what it was it was like 1/8 th inch long I killed it lol
Springtails don't eat you're plant
Springtails are almost necessary in soil
Why on EARTH would you kill springtails?? I have a colony of them just for adding to my plants and terrariums. They eat mold, decaying plant matter, and overly abundant algae. And they're harmless to the plants.
Plus you never have to worry about them leaving the planter and infesting your home as they can't live outside a dirt or leaf litter environment and would never leave that area voluntarily.
Saying you need to get rid of springtails is like saying you need to get rid of ladybugs in your garden.
Don't kill them lol
This is ridiculous. Springtails are extremely beneficial. Why God‘s name would you want to kill them?
Thanks for the video, I saw some crawling in my string of turtle soil, I wanna try baking soda, thank you hope my plant won’t die
It work ???
Oh my gosh utube is new tv... I'm going back to books . So annoying. Commercials , ads.. hooded eyes, geeze who cares I'm here for bugs on my 🌹roses. I have to watch a commercial. Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Give em to me!
This guy is killing them and I’m buying them at 12.95 a culture from joshs frogs
They're so easy to culture, man. You only need to buy them once.
Omg at beginning iknow you are going to say baking soda wtf is wrong with all-Americans
They ate my all cuttings
Wtf
They almost destroy my Monstera Albo 😖
Springtails are beneficial. Thumbs down from me.
Too many? Youre nuts! No one listen to this guy
yep why you wand to kill them they are one of the best things you can have in the soil.??
I have this.
I had something on my aphelandra squarrosa, on it's leaves, since I bought it, which I used to wash out, and spray with soapy water, but never got rid of it completely, as top of the plant is too fragile and tiny to get it, new little leaves just fall off if you try to move them around to clean them, and they are ribbed and it's easy for bugs and eggs to hide. washing it would be fine for few days, then they would pop up again. I swear, it's like the thing grows with it's leaves.
these leaf bugs also used to drop on nearby plants, and not infect them.
but recently I saw these things, they are easy to id as you would never guess they can jump with that elongated body, but they do. I tried watering it with H₂O₂ but they didn't seem affected, in fact, they just jumped out of the way. but then I saw a cobweb like a centimeter of the soil surface and it was like starry night, covered with little white dots. at first I assumed that these bugs make webs, but instead of removing the web, I moved the plant away from other plants. I honestly don't know why I didn't remove the web, but then I noticed that there were no white bugs running around on the surface. so I figured the little spider caught them all and was glad I didn't remove the web. there were none of them for few days, and now they are back, and leaves are once again covered with, probably the other bug type, but now I can't wash that off, in case the spider is still there. if he's gonna predator these springtails away, I don't want to wash him off. I mean, he's predatoring something, I don't know which of the probably two bug types this plant is plagued with
I don't know what to do with this plant, you can't leave it alone for two days, she dries up and starts dropping leaves, and it's a pest magnet. it has ribbed leaves so it's really hard to clean as bugs can hide. I have no idea what to do with it.
this plant is in a self watering pot cause it can't go dry, not even for a day, or it starts dying back,... so it has perfect conditions for these bugs, but if there's still a spider there, he might help, but what do I do with leaf thing if I have to mind the spider?!?
like, just don't buy this plant, it's too hard to manage...