#spidermites — Public Fediverse posts

Deter Garden Pests The Natural Way By Planting These 8 Herbs https://www.allforgardening.com/1759705/deter-garden-pests-the-natural-way-by-planting-these-8-herbs/ #aphids #garden #GardenPests #plants #RaisedGardenBeds #SpiderMites

Deter Garden Pests The Natural Way By Planting These 8 Herbs https://www.allforgardening.com/1759705/deter-garden-pests-the-natural-way-by-planting-these-8-herbs/ #aphids #garden #GardenPests #plants #RaisedGardenBeds #SpiderMites

Anyway, #InternationalRockFlippingDay finds: a vine weevil (*Otiorhynchus* of some kind), and a bryobiine spider mite, see e.g. *Petrobia*.

#bugstodon #DailyMitePic #arachnids #mites #SpiderMites #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Entiminae #Acari #Acariformes #Prostigmata #Tetranychidae #Bryobiinae

#Arachtober 3: spider mites (family Tetranychidae)! These tiny herbivorous mites are the bane of gardeners and farmers the world over. Spider mites in the subfamily Tetranychinae leave sheets of a very fine silk they produce, finer than spider silk, over heavily infested plants.

This plant in a nearby park showed the telltale "stippled" look of spider mite feeding on its leaves, and tiny mites could be seen especially on the leaf undersides.

I cannot stress how tiny they are. If you can get a good phone picture of individual mites without magnification, they're probably not spider mites.

#DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #SpiderMites • #Acari #Acariformes #Tetranychidae #Tetranychinae

Went for a walk this morning and I found the most amazingly spider mite-infested patch of cosmos!! _Tetranychus_, I think, maybe even _T. urticae_. I noticed the leaves had that speckled look to them and looked closer.

While they're hardly rare, I myself almost never spot them, and this is the first time I've been able to get macro photos of them.

#DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #SpiderMites #Acari #Tetranychidae #Tetranychinae