Pest identification?

pjmac

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This isnt the best picture and even a.i isnt telling me what this is.
So heres the information on them,
I had mites, i sprayed and everything started looking better. Then about 3 days ago i started noticing some weird spots on my leafs consistent to what i thought was mites but i couldnt find a single webbing or anything related to mites. then next day i had some leaf drop on a few plants bottom 4 leaves of my hda just fell off. A few look crispy like they were burning. So at one point i peaked in my tent and i saw whats in this picture, it can fly but chooses not to unless you spray them, my insecticide kills them on contact so likely a softbody insect, they or their larvae eggs are doing damage to my figs. They are about twice the size of an adult gnat. They do fly but run very fast on the leaves and they dont like to be seen, if they see you they run under the leaves.
I have sprayed again yesterday tops and bottoms of all my leaves and now almost all are outside so hopefully some predators take care of the rest i found and killed about 6 adults. And made sure to spray and remove anything i thought could be eggs. But i dont know what im dealing with to figure it out fully.

I sprayed gardensafe fung3 on them and they died but i dont know if its killing the eggs/larvae and that could be doing damage too. I think tonight im going to spray captain jacks dead bug i have a concentrate and a sprayer. But any help is greatly appreciated any every deal with these?. I buy and bring in cuttings and plants from all kinds of places so couldve came from anywhere.
 

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That’s not good! Hope you get it sorted soon. I would figure it looks familiar to someone.
Yea not good im scrambling to get ahead of it. Losing leaves on hda tnt and vagabond. And a few cuttings but they seemed to wake back up so whatever it is is sucking the life out of my leaves but not killing the plants...yet.
 
I Think im going to order some ladybugs
I have no idea how big they are so ladybugs may do the trick, if they are bigger you may want to think about mantids. Feel free to completely ignore me too if you wish. Nvm just reread the original post lol. Sorry
 
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