Oh, I am checking it daily now ^_^. What is the most effective way to eliminate them? This is my first spider mite encounter..
Different insects have different reproductive rates. To eliminate any insect pest you must first know who you are fighting and understand its reproductive cycle.More pests, aphids, I notice some black spots on my strawberry stalks, sure enough it was aphids, it also reached my pineberry runners..I am scared to introduce new plants inside now
View attachment 25479 View attachment 25480
Neem oil, if OMRI rated, is an organic and safe product. Anyway all I was saying is that these 3 products are all you will ever need. There are multitudes of home remedies for just about anything but they do not perform near as well as these. You can use horticultural oil for scale insects and for insect eggs instead of neem and it works ok. Neem also kills insects by contact and by some residual effects. Neem also acts as a fungicide. But for an all around insect control a spinosad based product is much better than Neem. Spinosad doesn't do much against insect eggs but it is a much better insect killer and has a much better residual effect than Neem. You really need both on hand just in case.
Yeah after two weeks I see a little more coming back. I cant soak it since it is indoors and sprying neem oil also goes to unintended plants. So What I did was wet a papertowel and soak each leaves this way while removing some mites. Then I do the same with neem oil mixture. This seems to work well and does not burn leaves. Spraying it burns some of the leaves because I did not see that some leaves when curling it holds neem oil to much..
Unfortunately I cant because too much bugs and Gnats may lay eggs so I dont want to take that chance.
