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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Re: Problems with spiders
Message-ID: <790@osiris.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-May-86 09:20:08 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  9 09:20:08 1986
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>       There are many (100's?) tiny (<1mm) spiders crawling all over
> my houseplants.  Whenever I apply a chemical spray, the majority
> die on the plant that I spray it on, but others soon grow and
> migrate to replace their dead comrades.  Am I witnessing abiogenesis?
> The spiders either eat, suck, and/or poison the leaves.  After a
> while, the leaves become spotted, turn dry, and eventually die.
> The spiders are brownish.

	Sounds like you, buckeroo, have spider mites, the scourge of
the indoor gardener. There are several things you can do. One, mites
are encouraged by dry conditions, so increase the humidity around your
plants (set them in bowls of stones with water) and mist them frequently.
Second, wash tehm daily in the kitchen sink and use your sprayer attachment
if you have it - the force of the water blows the mites off down the drain.
You have to get down into the crevices of the plant to get everything.
Finally, get some Safer's Insecticidal Soap. It's perfectly safe and it
works well.

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