Hello oleg9grower thank you for your help! I was still able to rescue the ones that I threw away in the trash. So dumb of me! Ugh. I just wanted to protect the big one if it was something else. They have a little damage but they will be alright I hope! I tried to inspect the leaves as you asked and near the base of the leaves and the bulb I was able to find a few small little insects on my largest bulb. The smallest bulb I have (the golf ball sized one) had some pealing on its bulb and when that layer flaked off a few of the little bug scattered. I'm afraid they are probably hiding in the flaky parts of the bulbs as well. Do you have any suggestions on how to handle this? Is there an acaricide separately for spider mites vs thrips? How do I know which one I have? The don't really have a long green body like I saw some thrips having, so I want to say spider mites but I am not sure.

Hi Nicole,

Thrips - the insect, whereas spider mite - it belongs to the arachnids. The difference for the ignorant: in those legs. Insects of 6, whereas arachnids -8. Thrips jump and fly, while the spider crawling only. I do not know what acaricides available in your country. So I can not give the name of the drug. Just choose the preparates systemic.

Okay so I do not see any flying so no thrips. I feel like its crawling only. I can't have one still for long enough in order to count their legs. Thank you for explaining that though!

You don't have obvious Stagonospora curtisii (red blotch) or HMV, your symptoms I see fairly frequently in my large collection, and do not appear to be contagious, I think the raised bumps may be caused by an environmental condition, however spider mites can't be ruled out. Best method for control is neither chemical or mechanical but cultural, improving air flow, reducing humidity and water, and in general creating conditions that are unfavorable to the mites and/or insects. Red streaks don't necessarily indicate a problem in amaryllis, they will form red scar tissue in response to a scrape or even to damage caused by scape and leaf emergence. Good luck!

Thank you Eric! I moved into my new home earlier this month and conditions for the amaryllises that were being affected are very much improving! I'm happy to report that the one with the most bumps/discoloration is growing three new healthy leaves. I'm really happy that they are okay! I did not do any chemical treatments but have been wiping the leaves down just in case any insects might be having the leaves as a snack. I also took the extra brown layers off the bulb to eliminate their hiding places and that helped a bunch. I did see a few small creatures scurry around when I removed the extra bulb layers so perhaps the bumps/discoloration was due to a few things happening to my plants.

Btw Nicole, if the insects were moving that quickly, they are not spider mites... ;)

Still not positive what the little buggers were! They were very very tiny and moved quickly. They were also pale in color... I have not seen them since the move! I'm so glad my plants are happy :D