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Post by WillyCKH on Jul 5, 2015 20:55:13 GMT -5
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Post by sokkos on Jul 5, 2015 21:01:21 GMT -5
Could they be spider mites?
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Post by Dennis Z on Jul 5, 2015 21:04:23 GMT -5
They look like spider mites to me.
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Post by WillyCKH on Jul 5, 2015 21:13:48 GMT -5
Oh no... What should I do
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Post by grackle on Jul 5, 2015 21:17:02 GMT -5
A touch of soap in the water helps cut them back. If it is the outside garden then gather up any millipedes/centipedes you see under rocks and add them to the patch as predators. Discourage birds less so that they eat them too. There are far worse things to have invading your patch.
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Post by WillyCKH on Jul 5, 2015 21:20:29 GMT -5
Thanks! I will try that!!
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Post by bcmosaic on Jul 5, 2015 22:01:06 GMT -5
Bummer. Mist with soapy water Good Luck
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Post by lloyd on Jul 5, 2015 23:08:13 GMT -5
Spider mites hate Eucalyptus Oil.
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Post by WillyCKH on Jul 5, 2015 23:19:29 GMT -5
Great, thanks Lloyd. I will get some if soapy water doesn't work. It's kind of sad because my greens are all dying from the heat and the bugs. Only my Purslanes are doing great. I guess I won't have any salad until everything is sorted out...
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Post by Dennis Z on Jul 5, 2015 23:20:08 GMT -5
Blasting water on your plant will also help. My brugmansia has recovered from it's infestation after a treatment of Eucalyptus Oil and water blasting.
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Post by WillyCKH on Jul 5, 2015 23:23:07 GMT -5
Water-Blasting added to the list!
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Post by grackle on Jul 5, 2015 23:38:52 GMT -5
Dennis Z is the smell enough of a deterrent to send them away? Say cough drops given their drought?
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Post by orchidsplz on Sept 18, 2015 16:33:27 GMT -5
does look like spide rmite... i use inorganic pesticides...
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Post by deanm on Sept 19, 2015 13:54:55 GMT -5
Yep spider mites are nasty and hard to get rid of at times. That is why I use a depleted uranium ammunition to blast each one off the plant. Actually, I use lemon joy soap mixed with warm water (about a 1 in 30 ratio) and that seems to do them in. The main thing is being careful when you spray as the soap can also cause damage to plants (coats/covers all of leaf and the stoma on the leaves). I spray the plants in the shade and rinse them off after about 20 minutes. Soap kills the spider mites in a matter of seconds - as the soap goes straight up into the stigmata (small pores on sides their body) and into the tracheae which quickly suffocates them. Spider mites do not thrive in high humidity so keeping humidity high has always been my indoor trick to keep them away.
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Post by dvg on Sept 19, 2015 16:36:10 GMT -5
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