Spider Mites are tiny web-spinning bugs that eat sap from the bottom of leaves. They are arachnids, which means they're in the spider family. Spider Mites attack trees and garden plants, making the leaves look stippled, yellow, and weak.
Spider mites are hard to see, as they're only about the size of a grain of pepper. Still, for their size, they can really wallop your plants. If leaves of your plants look yellowed and have tiny webbing between them, you might have spider mites.
Since spider mites are so small, you have to make sure that they're the culprits for your plant problems. Hold a sheet of white paper under an unhealthy branch. Hit the branch and see what comes out. If tiny red, yellow, green, brown, red, or black specs fall on your paper, you have spider mites.
Spider Mites like dry, dusty conditions. Spray your plants' leaves or needles with water. Hose down garden walkways and other dry, dusty spots. That will make them unhappy.
Having debris around trees and plants make spider mites feel welcome. If you pick it up, you'll remove some of the conditions they favor.
Treat your outdoor trees with a systemic bug control. It's absorbed through the plant and kills bugs that eat sap. Other products, such as Ortho® Bug-B-Gon® Garden & Landscape Insect Killer, work well, too. For indoor plants, use Ortho® RosePride Insect Killer Ready-To-Use.
Spider Mites are tiny web-spinning bugs that eat sap from the bottom of leaves. They are arachnids, which means they're in the spider family. Spider Mites attack trees and garden plants, making the leaves look stippled, yellow, and weak.
