What Are Spider Mites?
No garden is complete without beautiful flowers and plants to adorn it, but there are many insects that can cause severe damage to your plants and flowers by infestation. One of these is the spider mite. Does this Spark an idea?
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Identification
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Spider mites are small insects that feed off your plants and can severely damage your plant or even kill it.
Appearance
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Spider mites resemble a spider. They have eight legs except during the larval stage and can be seen with the eye when they are in groups. They look like tiny dots and can be black, purple, orange, yellow, green, or clear..
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Growth
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Spider mites can grow in the summer from an egg to adult in as little as two weeks.
Effects
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You have a spider mite problem if you can see tiny webs on the tip of your plant and tiny dots in the webs.
Prevention/Solution
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To get rid of spider mites, purchase an insecticidal soap and use it according to the manufacturer's directions.
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