I prety sur that I found a worm in my buket of pubicilix. Shoud I worry about it? Is there something that wil kill it? What do you think?
Thank for all the help
RER
hoya werms?
an earthworm? He probably won't hurt anything, as long as you don't mind him being there...I would probably take him out though, next time he surfaces, but that is just because I don't like anything too big being alive in my pots. I'd just scoop him out and toss him somewhere where there is more dirt he can burrow into.
rottenegg, do you mean worms? I think I agree with Bhavanna34, unless it is white and shiny, which be larve of some kind, it is probably an earth worm. Do you grow your plant outside? I think should just set it free in some soil or grass.
Good luck.
Evelyn
I can honestly say that i've never had any sort of worm in any of my hoyas as the vast majority of them hang in baskets. I do tend to get earthworms in any of my plant pots (no hoyas) that sit directly on the ground and I do leave them in there as they keep the soil aerated which is good for the plants.
This is a list of good pests and bad pests that i've found either in the soil of or on the hoya plant itself
G is for good
B is for bad
lizzards (G) as long as they dont jump on me. Would you beleive I love snakes but i'm afraid of lizzards. As Carol says go figger!!!
mealy bugs (BBB) if I could sell them i'd have more money than Bill Gates and Oprah combined!!!
spider mites (B) I only have 3 hoyas that really seem to attract these and those are both forms of H. chlorantha and sp. Tanna island
whiteflies (BBBBB) because you can go from having zero to a trillion of them almost overnight and they are a B@#$% to get rid of and they spread can spread disease amongst your plants.
aphids (B) ditto as for the whiteflies and mealies!!!
spiders(B & G) bad because I am deathly afraid of them and would probably fall dead with a heart attack if one ever jumped on me. We have those huge garden spiders here that make that zig zaggy pattern in the center of their webs and I almost unknowingly walked right into one at face level. Had I actually dont it before I saw it i'd most likely still be laying out in the yard not breathing!!
Good because they eat (hopefully) all of the bad insects that get on the plants.
Little green tree frogs (B) because here again I am not afraid of snakes but i'm scared of frogs. Put one on me and you're dead!!!
snakes (G & B) non poisonous is good as they keep the rodent population down not that I have a problem with mice or rats or anything like that. At least not since we got rid of our horses. We used to have rats so big that the cats were afraid of em!!! At the time I had one of those air pumped CO2 injected pellet rifles and I could pump it 15 times and hit one of those rats with it and all it did was P@#$ them off!!!!
I found a snake coiled up in one of my plumerias last year ( baby nonpoisonous) so I left him there.
So back to the question at hand here. If you have a worm in your hoya pot just leave it there. If it's an earthworm it'll be beneficial to the plant. if it's any other type of worm sooner or later it will pupate into something else and most likely fly away!!!! Unless it's like one of those worms from the movie Trimmers then you leave the plant and all and get the H@#$ out of town!!!!
dmichael