If your once-vigorous plant is starting to look sickly, spider mites may be the culprits. These tiny, plant-feeding arachnids ...

Q: As I was bringing in one of my houseplants for the winter, I noticed that it has spider mites. I put it in a room by ...

It’s time to start watching for the next pest invasion: With the onset of hot dry weather in the last couple of weeks, tiny spider mites will soon be out in full force to attack unsuspecting trees and ...

One quite common houseplant pest that I just noticed on those lovely variegated ivies I'm overwintering is the spider mite. Mites have four pairs of legs so they're not true insects, but are placed in ...

Q: I have a bougainvillea that’s been growing in my big south-facing window for 45 years. Occasionally, it gets aphids and more recently red spider mites. Though I have used a systemic on occasion, my ...

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Question: We always have spider mites on our flowering garden phlox and a few other perennials in the summer. The leaves look speckled with tiny pin-pricks of white, and we can see their webs on the ...

Spider mites — they’re just like us. Scientists at the University of Vienna have uncovered the creepy-crawlies’ sexual habits. Male spider mites will “undress” their female counterparts before ...

Spider mites, a major pest in California’s strawberry fields, may have met their match. Chemical ecologist Elvira Simone de Lange, a postdoctoral researcher in the Christian Nansen lab, UC Davis ...

Idaho Farm Bureau Federation reports that Terravata, an Idaho-based company, is using drones by releasing beneficial insects ...

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