Are you a vegetable grower who enjoys spending time in you greenhouse? Have you noticed thin white sheets of web on your plants? Do you notice the leaves developing spots or mottling? Is your plant showing signs of dying at a pretty fast rate? If the answers to these questions are all “yes”, then you have a problem. Your plants have been almost certainly invaded by spider mites.
Spider mites are almost microscopic, being so small that you can barely see them, but their presence will be confirmed if you see thick white sheets of web on your leaves. They prefer to create their communities on the bottom side of the leaves where they suck the life of the shrub. These pesky bugs are a cross between an anthropod and arachnid and unfortunately have the ability to multiply at an alarming rate. They attack plants from the common garden to those you will find in an orchard. They also have a tendency to invade fields growing corn, strawberries, peppers and the like.
The reproductive speed of these pests is shocking, especially to the growers. Because of this, getting rid of spider mites can be a challenge. Keep in mind just how much your plant will suffer with hundreds of these pests sucking the life from them. This thought alone is more than enough to make any gardener rush to destroy these mites immediately.
Considering that a female is able to lay 20 eggs in a single day, you must act quickly. These eggs can hatch in as little time as 3 days. 5 days later, the new mites will be able to reproduce. Your plants will be in danger of withering and dying immediately. You will need to act fast in order to stop the invasion of the spider mites.
There are many techniques which are said to stop them from growing in number. Freezing and drowning the bugs is a good way to kill them, but won’t always get rid of them for good. Opting to open up your garden or field to other mites and bugs that feed on spider mites is effective, but that means you are also introducing them to your plants. The best way to get rid of them is with miticides that are strong enough to destroy the mites themselves, but won’t actually hurt the plants.
I wish you luck on your quest to destroy these spider mites and regain your plants health. No farmer or gardener should have to go through this process, but unfortunately that’s just the way nature works. It can be a cruel gardening world out there, but with the right attitude and mite killer, you can definitely take the advantage.
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