remove with a cotton swab? no way. there is dozens, maybe hundreds of them. like i said, they are tiny, and if i mist the soil, they just start running and jumping around, lokng for cover. i haven't seen any black ones yet. i thought about submersing the whole pot in water for awhile (outside, so they don't just infest another one of my plants), but it' all of 35 deg here and i don't want to freeze them do death (the plants).
they're not really special plants, but my mom did give me one of them (a shefalarea, sp?). i have moved them to another part of the house, so they don't infect anything else. hopefully the "cool" garden center is open friday, so i can pick up something to kill the little bugers!
keep those thoughts comming!
peace,
technoacer,
bug killer this friday