On a warm, dry summer day, some of my plants’ leaves had a sprinkling of light dots. Some were turning an unhealthy, ugly bronze color. The underside of the leaves revealed webbing, indicating that ...

Spider mites don’t make noise, they don’t wave a warning flag, and they can devastate your garden before anyone realizes what’s happening. These pint-sized pests are relentless, and their appetite for ...

No larger than a grain of sand, spider mites have eight legs and needle-like mouthparts used to pierce leaves of host plants and suck out their fluids. Unfortunately for home gardeners and commercial ...

The twospotted spider mite (TSSM) is a plant-feeding mite that is an extremely widespread pest affecting nearly all crop plants (over 1000 plant species). TSSM is very small in size and requires ...