What eats the stem out of the bud?

[Rwise]

I was inspecting a plat, Mazar I Shariff, and I found a few small buds just laying there in a few kolas. As I pulled them out I noted they were not attached, sat them to the side. This morning I am giving them a look over, and there is another dying bud, also just setting there not attached. I tore into it, it has no stem, so I grab the jewelers loupe and give it a close (30x) look. The trics are there nice but clear, whats that, a little black ball of little black balls (about the size of the head of a tric)! Eggs but for what? I wish I could get picks,,,
I also sprayed this morning for spidermites, I did not see anything fly away,,,(alcohol/water)
So whats your thoughts as to what eats the stem out of a bud, lays eggs and moves on?
And how to get rid of it,,,,

[SoOrbudgal]

tiny caterpillar maybe?

[D.A.A.S.69]

I know you said you can't get pictures, but pictures speak ,thousands of words.
If I had to guess, I'd say budworms, catapillers. Like SoOrbudgal said above.
I've torn open some nice outdoors buds, and seen small worms, or larvae, I think it's called, not sure though, very similar to the worms, you sometimes see in corn.
They can do horrible damage,
I hope you find out what it is,

[Rwise]

I certainly agree with pics, the equipment is just not in the budget for now,,,

[jimicloudstuff]

I had a lot of trouble this year with cotton borers....caterpillars that crawl inside your stem from eggs laid in a bud. They then chew up the inside of the stalk, usually resulting in bud rot/death(for me anyways).

Hemp borers eat the bud proper I believe.

I'm no expert, but I have sprayed buds with bt spray for caterpillar control with no ill effects of taste of buds.

Good luck!

[Rwise]

I will look at the BT, I do think it to be some type of tiny caterpillar, but so far all I have read on bud worms say the eggs are white to yellowish. And I would be able to see the worms,,,
I put this last bud in a sealed jar to see what happens, probably nothing,,,

Check out this link on bugs!

https://hempinsects.agsci.colostate.edu/hemp-insects-text/

[Spidermite]

It is probably worm poop that you are seeing as the tiny black balls. That's what insect turds look like.

We had issues with them this year on the outside grows.

[Rwise]

I went and cut the affected kola off and gave it a real close look (60x). Where the bud had been attached did not look chewed off or cut, more like an acid burn. I did not see any more of the little balls of little black balls, Spidermite that is something I thought of as well.
So even though the dead is green at this point I believe it to be budrot. So I will be mixing up some trifecta,,,.