Reminds me of gnats making my way into my dreams last year. Probably spent two huors a day hunting those fuckers down like a crazy person who hasn’t slept.
That’s awesome that you haven’t seen them… i know pests can just ruin your day/month/crop … im lucky in that I live in an area where there aren’t many insects that go for the actual plant (just fungus gnats that eat at the root). I live in SE Alaska so it’s naturally wet.
I’m guessing these things attack the actual greenery? I found las tyear that diatamaceous earth actually did an excellent job of creating a physcial barrier between the substrate and the air to keep the gnats from getting to the soil.
This year I cooked my soil beforehand so i have not had to worry about pests at all… it’s nice to have a garden that just runs itself…didn’t even put any DE down but i mix it in lightly with my soil now just in case.
sorry it’s late and I’m a bit tired so I don’t feel like going down the google hole but iirc, nematodes are a type of mite/insect that feed/attack the pest that is harming your plant? It’s a good feeling finding and fixing the source of the problem, that is for sure.