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Because these insects are plant juices gorge, most of his precious garden is likely to be your main course, instead of the unwanted weeds make every day. Are all the gardener's worst nightmare.

There are many types of spider mites, but beware the two-spotted spider mites. The plagues of these small arachnids are barely visible. Armed with a magnifying glass, inspect your plants need to confirm their existence.

You can see that there are two dark spots on the abdomen of the creature. The ads you see are the plant juices be digested by insects. The color of the two-spotted spider mites depends on the environment. They are usually dark and pale green, sometimes yellow transparent. Women who try to stay alive orange during the winter can be reddish.

Female two-spotted spider mites can put about 200 eggs in just a period of ten days. It takes only five days for the eggs to become a mature adult, resulting in rapid population explosion. Over seven generations may sprout in the summer months. Women are born with two sets of chromosomes, that enable it to produce males, even without mating. It's unbelievable cruelty of life that pests have a reproduction rate amazing. Now is the time to identify its existence among their plants.

Tell-Tale Signs of your garden is Infested
# Patterns Point - Point is defined recorded as consisting of points. If the leaves of your plants have small brown dots all, these points are the impressions left by the mites every time you cross sheet suck plant juices. Severe attacks the leaves are usually yellow or bronze in color.

# Leaves curling - From the mites suck juice, the leaves dry out. This is when the leaves curl inwards or outwards. These are signs that serious damage is already on its way. Once the damage reaches a certain level, the leaves will fall because photosynthesis stops and the carbon dioxide can not be processed further. Are synonymous with healthy leaves of plants healthy.
# White Fusion - must be turning over the leaves and see if there white networking at the bottom. These are the threads of silk that the mites use to get around the plants. In severe infestations, these networks are known to complete the entire plant.

Once you are able to detect the presence of mites, there are three controls that can help to get rid of them, mechanical controls, biological and chemical.

Mechanical Mite Controls

Floor Insulation - There is a saying that do not mix with healthy rotten mangoes. The same should apply to the infested plants. Air does not remain stationary and changes in temperature cause the mites to move from one plant to another.

The mites also known to many means of transport. Lines using silk thread off of the leaves, like Tarzan, swinging from one plant to another. These mites are eight-legged, so walking is never a problem for them. It is a need to isolate or quarantine infested plants to save the healthy.

Cold Water - Get a hose and shoot a jet of cold or ice water to dislodge mites from plants. Mites love moist environments but the cold water spray would give them significant discomfort. Be careful that the water current is not too powerful, so as not to damage the plants. Do not forget to spray the undersides of leaves.

It is best if you move the plant to another location before spraying cold water on it, since the mites can upload and seek refuge in other plants. It is known that spraying cold water can also drown some of the mites, if not all of them. If you do this all day for a week, the mites will be forced to leave because of the hostile environment it creates.

Shadow Them Up - If possible, try to keep your plants outside of the arid climate and be sure not to be beaten by the afternoon sun. Providing the plants with some shade during the hot days will help protect plants weakened by mites. You can also set a humidifier in the area where the plants are to increase the amount of water vapor in the air.

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