Spider mites often grow on indoor and garden plants

Symptoms

Ticks are small arachnid insects (0.4-0.6 mm), red or yellow-orange in color. A special, easily recognizable symptom of the onset of a disease and the appearance of a pest is a light cobweb on indoor flowers. Pests settle on the reverse side of the leaf and completely entwine it with their web. If the colony is large, they settle not only on the territory of the leaves, but also attack the petioles and flowers. Their presence is facilitated heat and dry air.

Kind of activity

Spider mites pierce the peel of leaves with a special mouthparts and suck out the juice. At the site of tissue damage, tiny light spots form, then the leaves turn yellow, wither, darken and fall off. Small plants, when attacked by pest colonies, even die if the fight against them is started too late. Ticks thrive in almost all green areas of the home and garden. It is very important that as soon as you discover the presence of pests, kill them as soon as possible and use effective and efficient treatments against them.

These are the most common symptoms that allow you to detect pests in the early stages of plant disease. Most often, pests settle on such indoor plants, How:

• croton;
• palm;
• dracaena;
• Sheflera;
• hydrangea;
• ficus

As well as the following garden flowers and plants:

• tomatoes;
• cucumbers;
• pepper;
• cypress;
• fragrant violet, etc.

In shefflera, the disease manifests itself a little differently. The early visit of unwanted guests announces itself by the appearance of red spots that are visible on the lower and upper parts of the leaves. The leaf blade, like other indoor plants, is deformed.

Spider mites on orchids are usually brought from the country of origin - China

The spider mite that lives on orchids originates from China and is imported into our country along with seedlings of such popular orchids as Phalaenopsis. It attacks, in most cases, the underside of the leaf, and its effect is a large red indentation on the leaves. Red spots are very harmful to orchids. If the pest's actions are detected too late, growth slows down and flowers do not appear on the orchids.

Unwanted guests like to visit and citrus species trees. The activity of the pest manifests itself in the distortion of young leaves and the appearance of yellow or red spots on them. Old leaves turn silver after the work of the pest.

The most dangerous representatives of this group of plant pests include (Tetranychus urcicae), a pest that feeds on more than 300 species of plants, including those grown at home. There is also a spider mite (Tetranychus cinnabarinus) - an enemy of greenhouse crops, a spider mite (Panonychus ulmi), which is mainly found in the garden on fruit trees and bushes, as well as the spider mite (Oligonychus ununguis), attacking conifers trees and shrubs.

The large number of generations that appear in one year makes pest control much more difficult. Regular preventive measures and the use of suitable drugs, immediately after detecting the first signs of their settlement on plants, ensure good results in the fight against them.

Many pests can lead to a drop in chlorophyll content in leaves, photosynthesis decreases, resulting in a decrease in growth and yield.

The first sign of a tick is often a characteristic web

Mite attack on vegetables

On tomatoes, the presence of mites is indicated by small, bright spots on the leaves. The cucumber leaves wrinkle, turn white, flowers and fruit buds fall off.

In the case of paprika, the situation is very similar. If you do not quickly respond to the pest, the plants may die.

Ways to fight

For effective fight with mites, the best thing to do is to inspect your houseplants very carefully once a week, especially in winter period when the air in apartments is especially dry due to heating. The earlier the pest is detected, the easier it will be to fight it and save the life of the plant. Pests should be looked for on the back of the leaves. If the number of mites exceeds (for ornamental plants And vegetable crops 0.2-0.5 ticks per 1 sq. cm, and for fruit trees 3 mites per leaf), and to get rid of them, effective measures must be taken.

Increase humidity environment and spray the leaves more often with warm, soft water (mites stop reproducing at a humidity of 90%). This good way against pests.

Spider mites usually accumulate on the back of the leaf.

Home remedies

Things you will need:

magnifying glass (preferably 30x), water, plant spray, 4-5 tablespoons of dishwashing liquid, 1 cup of salicylic alcohol.

• Use a magnifying glass to carefully examine indoor plants to see if they have been attacked spider mite. Hold the glass over the plant and check for brown or black spots no larger than poppy seeds. Look for any nibbled shoots, leaves, stems or other signs of pests around the area.
• Spray the plants as often as possible and water regularly. Spider mites usually move downwards if the plant is well sprayed with water. Water washes away the remnants of the spider web and all the debris and tick activity. It will be good if you remove the plants to a room that is not too lit by the sun during the period of fighting the mite.

Water and dishwashing liquid

If the number of mites on the plant is small, then washing the infected plant leaves will be quite effective against them. warm water with a few drops of dishwashing liquid.

Mix 1 tablespoon liquid product for washing dishes and one liter of water. Pour the solution into a spray bottle. Spray the plant under the leaves to kill mites. The product kills pests as soon as it hits them. To stop further mite infestation, use the product after 7 days.

Dishwashing liquid can be sprayed on infected plants.

A solution of laundry soap and water

Treating with a solution of soap and water helps fight the mite, and you can also sprinkle the leaves with the remaining ash from a burnt cigarette.

In case of a pest attack on bush hydrangea or aromatic violet, cypress, a shower with strong water pressure for several days helps.

Vegetable oil

Bottom side leaf blade can be lubricated vegetable oil. The oil coats the spider mite's body, creating a barrier and restricting air flow, which will ultimately suffocate the pest.

Soap and denatured alcohol solution

Another effective way fighting spider mites is treating the back side of a plant leaf with a solution laundry soap and denatured alcohol. To prepare the solution, you need to dilute 20 g of laundry soap and 10 ml of denatured alcohol in 1 liter of water. Mix the mixture thoroughly and spray using a hand sprayer. It is very important to cover all parts of the plant with liquid. It is good if after spraying you can wrap the plant in a transparent film and let it stand for several days.

The dark remains of spider mites will be visible on the transparent film. This will be a sign that the treatment was successful.

Denatured alcohol is the strongest poison for spider mites

Extract from garlic and onion peels A good effect of killing spider mites is achieved using an extract from a clove of garlic and onion peel

. Not only is it fatal to them, but it also prevents them from invading the plant again. The smell of garlic and onions acts as a deterrent for the spider to settle and spread on plants. To prepare the extract, you need to finely chop the garlic cloves (about 25 g) and pour them into 1 liter cold water and leave for 12-14 hours. After this time, the solution should be decanted and diluted cold water

in a 1:1 ratio and spray on the plant. The extract is consumed during the day because it quickly loses its healing and deadly properties. The plant treatment should be repeated after 21 days to ensure that the pests have left your plants and are not returning.

An extract from onion peels is obtained and used in a similar way. In this case, pour 20 grams of dry onion peel into 1 liter of water and leave to infuse for 3 days. It is not recommended to dilute the infusion with water. It is also worth using the drugs interchangeably - once with garlic, once with onions.

Salicylic alcohol and water

Mix 1 cup alcohol with 1 cup water and pour the mixture into a spray bottle. Alcohol kills ticks on first contact. Water dilutes the alcohol enough to not harm the plant. Spray especially carefully the undersides of plant leaves where spider mites like to live.

Good to know! In order to prevent the appearance of spider mites at home, which is especially important in winter time

, take care of additional humidity in the house - spray the plants with warm water more often.

The back of the plant needs to be treated with salicylic alcohol.

Biological control If plants are infested with a large colony of invading mites and folk remedies from spider mites do not lead to, commercially available biological preparations containing deadly poisons for predatory mites that eat and attack plants.

A drug such as Spidex 2000 is an excellent remedy for spider mites (Phytoseiulus persimilis). The drug is sprayed on the leaves of plants, while trying to increase the air humidity in the immediate vicinity of the diseased plants and trying to ensure a temperature of about 20 degrees. Mites killed by the drug will be visible as dark spots on the leaves. Treatment is repeated after seven days.

Attention! The open drug Spidex 2000 can retain its beneficial features only 24 hours after opening, as it is intended for short life pests Therefore, in practice, the entire package should be used at once.

For house plants, buying such a preparation is not very profitable, since the packaging is intended for 2000 plants, which is convenient for use in greenhouses. The drug allows you to control the appearance of spider mites in greenhouses without using chemicals.

Spidex 2000 - modern remedy from spider mites

Chemical means to combat spider mites

As a last resort, if you have tried all the folk and biological methods To get rid of pests, you can use chemicals.

For several years, manufacturers have been producing chemical preparations that successfully fight and control the proliferation of mites in indoor and garden green spaces. The success of the fight is largely due to early drug treatment.

It is better to choose those that are specifically designed to kill ticks. Before using the products, be sure to carefully read the instructions for use and spray the plants until the mites disappear.

One of the preparations "Polysect Ultra Hobby AL" is available for use on indoor plants. Available in the form of a small spray bottle. Plants affected by spider mites should be thoroughly treated with the product, and treated again after 7-10 days.

In the case of a large number of plants and to combat mites in the garden, chemical reagents are used in concentrated form. They dissolve in water, and the resulting liquid is sprayed onto the plants. These are: Polysect 005 SL, Magus 200 SC and Karate Zeon 050 CS.

"Polysect Ultra Hobby AL" can be used on indoor plants

A good start to spider mite control

In order to get rid of spider mites in the garden, in the spring you should use a spray containing paraffin oil, which destroys overwintering mite eggs. These are products such as: 60 Promanal EC and Treol 770 EC, Catania 800 EC.

Chemical preparations Cascade 050 EC or Nissorun, Talstar and Mitac 200 EC are also effective in the fight against ticks. They are used twice with an interval of seven to ten days.

The effectiveness of this treatment is 100% and means that no other acaricide treatment is required until the end of summer. Quite often it happens that there is no need for treatment chemicals during the summer, as small numbers of ticks are kept under control natural predators. Big advantage products with paraffin oil is their natural origin, which fits perfectly into the methods of integrated control.

Kills the pest and elevated temperature(above 20 degrees Celsius) and high humidity (more than 90%).

Must be remembered

If spider mites are not detected in time, it may be too late to save the plant. Ticks multiply very quickly, and at some point, the measures you take against them will no longer be useless.

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Medicines for spider mites

Before you run to specialized stores selling pest control products, you should understand that there are two types of drugs: chemical and biological.

Chemical preparations have an acaricidal effect and can be used only to exterminate spider mites, or they can be used for a wide range of purposes – against various indoor pests.

Important! When choosing chemicals, read the instructions: it should indicate whether use with other chemicals.

Preparations with chemical compounds there are different degrees of toxicity. For a room, they usually use products belonging to the 3rd class, but the previous two in the middle of the room should absolutely not be used, since people, animals, and fish can be poisoned. Sometimes spraying of poison is carried out near the house. After the smell has completely disappeared, the pot with the plant can be brought back.

When processing with chemicals, you should follow some rules:

1. Plants should be irrigated frequently to avoid dry “islands.”
2. Processing consists of 3 stages. After the first treatment of the plant, at least 5 days should pass, after the second - another 5 days.
3. Only dry plants need to be treated.
4. If you use one drug for a long time, it needs to be replaced with another (with a different active ingredient).
5. Tick ​​destruction takes up to 12 hours. The air temperature should be no lower than 20º and no higher than 26º Celsius.
6. Don't forget about the soil in the pots - you need to pour a little solution into it.
7. Availability is required protective equipment for the person conducting the processing.

The action of biological preparations is based on the active intervention of living microorganisms in the usual life of the spider mite.

This method of pest destruction is especially popular among those who remove a large number of indoor plants for sale. Either a special mushroom is added to the plants, or predatory insect, which will simply feed on spider mites. The disadvantage of this method is that the storage of the “killer material” is short-lived.

Chemicals

The insectoacaricidal nature of the drug indicates its ability to actively fight both insects and mites and spiders.

It affects pests through contact with the paws, and then penetrates the body; the tick can also be poisoned by toxic chemical vapors. There is also a systemic effect.

The toxicity of the drug is characterized high degree, which is dangerous for animals and people. Therefore, its use is advisable when there is a large pest infestation.

Apollo

The contact acaricidal effect of the drug is aimed at destroying the larvae. It is important that the product can also kill pest eggs. Sterilizes adult ticks. Can be mixed with other chemicals and compounds. It is not dangerous for bees.

It’s easy to prepare the solution: dissolve 1 teaspoon in 10 liters of water. Internal and outer part leaf.

The product gives excellent results in killing adult ticks. Due to its acaricidal properties, upon contact with a pest, it can penetrate deeply through the skin. It is also used to destroy eggs.

Toxicity: poses a danger to representatives of aquatic fauna, does not pose a danger to bees and birds.

The processing time must be selected taking into account the air temperature: it should not be below 10º and above 20º Celsius. The drug should be used once per season.

Basics active substance– bromopilate. Thanks to it, the entire population of ticks at all stages of development dies. To achieve maximum effect, treatment must be carried out 2 times. The residual effect from use lasts more than 4 weeks. The downside of the drug is its limited action: infection is possible only through contact of a tick with the drug.

The drug is used for both indoor and outdoor garden plants. Has a rapid acaricidal effect. Can significantly reduce the number of pests. It also destroys larvae. Used when sufficient warm temperatures air - at least 20º. Does not depend on humidity indicators.

Efficiency is achieved by lowering the plant into the solution. Processing must be carried out repeatedly. After 5-6 days you need to carry out the procedure again.

It has a contact effect and affects the viability of ticks when inhaled. The drug is low toxic to fish and beneficial insects.

The drug is a concentrated emulsion, where the main component is malathion. It acts on ticks through contact, and is also capable of destroying the pest by entering the intestines.

To prepare a 5 liter solution, 5 ml is enough. drug. The minimum number of treatments is 3. The procedure should be repeated after 7 days.

The product can be used with various chemicals.

Fufanon has a medium degree of danger.

Karbofos is used as the active main substance. Non-toxic to plants and low-hazard to living warm-blooded organisms.

The solution cannot be stored; it must be used immediately after preparation.

Biological agents

Refers to drugs that have a contact-intestinal effect.

Garden and garden plots. Able to destroy, in addition to ticks, many other pests.

The drug slowly kills pests during daylight hours. Air temperature affects the speed of the effect. Spraying is carried out during cool times of the day - in the morning around 5-6 o'clock and in the evening after 20.00.

The drug is not addictive, so you can use it as often as needed.

Designed to combat a large number of types of garden plant pests. It has the impact of endotoxin and exotoxin, which act both internally and externally, depriving the insect of normal life activity. Death occurs on the 4th day. After a week, spraying is carried out a second time to destroy the newly hatched colony.

Plants can be treated at any time during their development, since the drug contains no toxic substances. It has a special effect on larvae.

The 4th toxicity class of the drug indicates its safety for people and animals, birds and fish. The insectoacaricidal effect of the product is so effective that it is ready to destroy mites, their larvae and eggs. To do this, you need to use the life-saving drug every week, making a solution (2 ml per 200 ml ox). You need to repeat the procedure up to 5 times.

If you need to process a large garden plot, then this should be done in dry weather without wind. Indoor plants can be sprayed directly in the apartment.

Prevention

In many ways, the timely detection of spider mites depends on the plant owners: inspect your plants as often and thoroughly as possible. At an early stage of pest spread, it will be easier to destroy it.

The mite quickly and rapidly develops into following conditions: no wind, no high humidity, high air temperature.

Necessary preventive measures:

Spider mites are found on all continents, including Antarctica. These are not insects, but small arthropods, the closest relatives of which are spiders. They feed on plant sap and produce cobwebs. The most famous representative of the family is the common spider mite, a widespread pest of garden and indoor plants in all regions of the planet.

What does it look like

It is a polyphagous pest capable of feeding on several hundred host plants, many of which are important crops.

Adults are small and difficult to see on the leaves. The length of females is 0.4-0.6 mm, males are even smaller. The body is elongated, convex above, flat below. The oral apparatus is sucking. Like spiders, mites have eight legs, which distinguishes them from aphids and other sucking insects, which have 6 legs. There is no chitinous cover, so the body is soft.

In the larval stage, insects are transparent and have a light green or greenish-brown color. There are 2 large ones on the sides dark spots– intestinal loops are visible through the transparent body. IN younger age The larva has only 6 legs, two more will develop later. Adult females and males are dark red or orange.

This is the worst pest of indoor plants. If your favorite flower begins to dry out for no reason, then it’s worth inspecting reverse side leaves. When found on the bottom surface sheet plate small dark dots, poke one of them with a toothpick. If a speck of dust begins to move, then it is a spider mite, and it’s time to wonder how to deal with it.

Where does he live?

More often the pest settles on plants with tender and succulent leaves: indoor roses, chrysanthemums, crotons, violets, ficus Benjamin. Plants with rough leaves covered with a cuticle - zamioculcas, ficus, cacti - are too tough for the pest, since it cannot pierce the thick shell and get to the juice.

After a tick infection indoor flower turns yellow and dries. The pest can settle not only on the leaves, but also on the petals, disfiguring them. The inflorescences become wrinkled, spotted, and fall off ahead of schedule.

Pests multiply rapidly. Even the only specimen that came into the room with a current of air from the window in a dry environment favorable to it room air will begin to multiply quickly. It takes only a week from laying eggs to hatching into adults.

Spider mites on indoor plants quickly move from pot to pot, infecting home plantings. Take a closer look at the areas of the stem from which the leaf petioles extend. If you notice a white cobweb, it means that mites have settled on indoor plants and it’s time to get down to business.

Ready-made products

The most effective drugs against ticks belong to the category of acaricides. IN room conditions most suitable harmless means biological type. Acaricides destroy only adult insects and do not harm the eggs, so treatments must be repeated several times every three to four days.

Fitoverm

Drug of enteric contact action against harmful insects and ticks, produced in Russia. Contains soil fungal spores that settle inside the body of pests and cause their death. Safe for people and animals. To treat indoor plants, dilute 2 ml of Fitoverm in a liter of water and spray the leaves every 7 days. Treatments are repeated 2 to 4 times.

Vermitek

Manufactured by Syngenta, Switzerland. Biological preparation for the protection of ornamental plants in open and protected ground. At the beginning of the appearance of mites, one treatment is sufficient. If the driver has managed to multiply greatly, the treatment is repeated after a week.

To kill insects, 3 ml of the drug is diluted in 10 liters of water. After spraying, a plastic bag is put on the plant, which can be removed after a day.

Aktofit

Ukrainian analogue of Fitoverma, biological drug 4 generations, destroys ticks and insects. Indoor plants are treated twice with an interval of at least 14 days. A liter of water requires 4 ml of product.

Folk remedies

If the number of pests is small, then you can get by with one of the proven home methods.

Treatment with medical alcohol

The hardest part is finding real rubbing alcohol that is 96% ABV. Soak a cotton swab in alcohol and wipe the leaves of the flower - all mites and eggs will be instantly destroyed. This measure of spider mite control is suitable for plants with dense leaves: ficus, Chinese roses, Dieffenbachia, palm trees, and is not suitable for thin, delicate and pubescent leaves of fuchsias and violets.

Laundry soap

It does not destroy mites itself, but creates a film on the surface of the leaves through which the pests cannot breathe and die. The soap is whipped into foam and all the leaves are smeared with a brush. After three to four hours, the plants are washed under warm shower and cover overnight with a plastic bag. High humidity will “finish off” the miraculously surviving but already weakened pests. If a plant with small leaves is infected, you can use a sprayer instead of wiping.

Cat flea drops

Drops from cat fleas. Add 3-4 drops of the product per liter of water and carry out 2 treatments with an interval of 10 days.

Predatory mites

You can search in online stores or garden centers sachet with natural pests– predatory mites Phytoseiulus and Amblyseius. The sachet is opened and hung on a branch of a houseplant. Predators crawl out and start looking for food. Each person eats several spider mites and about a dozen eggs every day, so in a maximum of a week not a single pest will remain alive. And then the predators will die of hunger.

Spider mites in the garden

Ticks appear in the garden in June and already go to winter in August, hiding under plant debris and in the surface layer of soil. During this time they manage to destroy great amount garden plants. PCs can live in greenhouses all year round without retiring.

Where does he live?

More often, spider mites appear on seedlings in a greenhouse. Floral and decorative foliage crops are severely affected open ground: garden roses, chrysanthemums, boxwood, juniper, robinia, chestnuts, mock orange. Starts quickly on lemon.

With great hunting, the insect settles on greenhouse cucumbers, eggplants and tomatoes. It does not ignore grapes, apple trees, strawberries, melons, beans, beets, rhubarb, soybeans, spinach, peppers.

The pest settles on the lower plane of the leaf and sucks out the juice. It can be detected by the cobwebs that have accumulated at the base of the petioles, but it becomes visible when the infection becomes widespread.

Notice this little guy flower pest quite simple. Its occurrence is promoted insufficient humidity indoor air. If you do not fight this seemingly harmless creature, the plant will die very quickly.

What does a spider mite look like on indoor plants and its causes, signs and prevention?

Favorable conditions for pest reproduction are dry and warm air in the apartment. Preventing the spread of mites is to install a humidifier indoors or frequently spray the leaves.

Spider mites on indoor plants and methods, means of fighting and how to deal with them by watering

Conventional insecticides against spider mites are powerless. But there are many acaricides or insectoacaricides on the market.

List of the most common drugs:
— Aktellik;
— Omite;
— Anti-mite;
— Apollo;
— Neoron;
— Fitoverm, etc.

To treat plants with Fitoverm, the safest for people, 1 ml of the drug is mixed with 1 liter of water and added to a bucket with 9 liters of water. Pour the drug into a spray bottle and treat all home flowers. Wear rubber gloves and pour out the remaining solution.

How to get rid of spider mites on indoor flowers using folk remedies at home

Traditional methods of fighting spider mites include covering the plant with film to create a greenhouse effect. Flowers are sprayed with ground sulfur or garlic infusion. If the flower is sick for several days, traditional methods will not help, you need to buy special drugs in the store.

Are spider mites harmful and dangerous to humans or not?

Spider mites are not dangerous to humans; they feed on plant sap. This spider does not cause any diseases in humans.

Is it possible to get rid of spider mites and destroy them completely?

You can get rid of spider mites by completely destroying them if you use acaricides for control. Considering that female pests lay hundreds of eggs over several days, they can drink all the juices from the plant.

The success of treatment depends on the speed of your actions. Having noticed the first cobwebs on the flower and crawling dots, go to the store for fitoverm.

Spider mites on indoor plants and dichlorvos, potassium permanganate, laundry soap, fitoverm

Of all the listed means of combating spider mites, the most effective is treatment with Fitoverm. It is a biological insectoacaricide wide range actions.

The composition includes a complex of streptomycetes fungi and their metabolic products. Causes paralysis and death of ticks on the 3rd or 5th day after treatment. Protection is effective for 3 weeks.

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First of all, it spoils appearance flowers, secondly, leads to their death. But if you know why spider mites are dangerous and how to fight them, you can completely protect your garden from this.

Spider mite: description of the pest

The spider mite is a representative of the arachnid class. It is resistant to chemical agents common tick are unlikely to have any effect on spider mites. The pest is red, yellow or orange. Gossamer is one of the the most common pests garden and

The cobweb is very small tick, a small insect that has an oval shape and reaches a size of 0.4-1.0 mm. Some individuals with a good appetite can reach 2 mm. The body of the pest is covered with small bristles, placed very sparsely.

Pests settle on the underside of the leaf. You can identify insect damage to a plant by light spots on the surface of the leaf. After some time, they move to the upper side of the leaf.
Pests multiply when daylight hours more than 14 hours and air temperature from 12 to 40 degrees. IN harsh conditions females hide in shelters and fall into diapause, during which life processes in the body slow down, allowing insects for a long time exist without food.

The female pest comes to life immediately after conditions become favorable and begins to consume large amounts of food and reproduce. These insects do not tolerate moisture, so dry air is a favorable environment indoors.

The cobweb lives in gardens and vegetable gardens, but can easily get indoors - it can fly with a gust of wind through open window. In this case, the spider mite is placed on indoor flowers and feeds on them.
Also, a flower mite may appear in the house on a bouquet of flowers or with soil for planting, and the question arises: how to get rid of it. If spider mites appear on indoor plants, you need to know how to deal with them correctly.

What harm can spider mites cause to plants, signs of the pest

The most common types are common and red spider mites. Ordinary harms crops too. Cell sap is the insect's favorite food. They pierce the surface of the leaves and infect representatives of the flora, sucking out the juice and disrupting the structural integrity - the leaves dry out and crumble.
Since the insect is very small, it is difficult to detect. A sign that the plant is sick is web. If insects accumulate in large quantities On the leaves, light spots are found that form large white areas and increase in size.

On an infected flower, the leaves and buds fall off and flowering stops. Most often you can find spider mites on or.

In the affected leaf, the rate of photosynthesis slows down, this makes the flower painful and susceptible to infectious diseases. The pest itself is a distributor of infections: gray rot, viral diseases.

How to deal with spider mites

Let's look at how to deal with spider mites.

After a spider mite appears on plants, it is necessary to immediately begin to combat it.

First, treat the plant with a solution of detergent or laundry soap. Use the solution warm. If you use this method, you will not get rid of the pest completely, but you will be able to destroy a significant part.
If cobwebs appear on single flowers, they need to be removed. The fight against spider mites is first and foremost proper watering, after which the plants should be covered plastic bags For a three days.

Did you know? Many insects live without food for several years. For example, a scorpion can live without food for two years, and a tick can live for ten years.

Chemical control methods, how to get rid of spider mites using drugs

To get rid of the pest completely, make small droplets of leaves. To do this, use phosphorus or sulfur preparations. Sulfur and phosphorus preparations for spider mites should be alternated.

The following substances are also effective in controlling insects:

• "Vermitek";

These high-quality preparations can effectively destroy the pest. It is necessary to spray the plantings several times with a break of a couple of weeks, since they cannot kill insect eggs, it is necessary to wait until new pests are born.

The Fitoverm product can destroy pests even in enclosed spaces, since the drug has low toxicity. You should also remember about protective equipment: wash your hands thoroughly after handling, change clothes.

The drug "Actellik" - even more effective remedy from pests. It is much more toxic and kills insects almost immediately. "Actellik" is recommended when other means no longer help, with mass destruction plants. Treatment with this drug is carried out only in an open space, all precautions are taken and kept away from households.

"Neoron" destroys both adults and their eggs after two treatments.

Important! The insect does not tolerate ultraviolet rays, for this reason it hides under the leaves. It will not be possible to completely get rid of it using ultraviolet light, but it is possible to reduce the population size.

Traditional methods of fighting spider mites

If it is not possible to purchase chemical agent from pests, use folk home remedies to combat ticks. Enough effective method fight against cobwebs - dousing with cold water. Dousing is carried out only if the plant is able to withstand it. Fighting spider mites with folk remedies is also possible when the plant cannot be sprayed - you need to place a jar of turpentine or finely chopped turpentine near it. The bush with the indicated product is covered and left for several hours.

It can also be used to make a preparation that is sprayed on an infected plant. Take about 200 grams of finely chopped and add a liter of water. Close the container with the mixture tightly and leave for 24 hours. To spray affected flowers, use only 6 grams of solution per liter of water.

In a similar way, you can make a solution from, which does not require dilution.

Very effective in the fight against insects medicinal. This product is sold in finished form at any pharmacy. Grind 30 grams of roots and add a liter of water. Let the solution sit for several hours. Strain and use for spraying.
Another folk remedy is