Spider mites
Posted: Fri May 06, 2022 5:27 am
While admiring the flowers on my G. mihanovichii I noticed a little red speck on one of the petals. I poked at it and it moved. I had found a spider mite.
This has never happened before so I'm pretty clueless as to what to do. I've checked the surrounding plants and found no signs of them. It seems to be localized to just the flowers of this one plant. I've isolated it for now and sprayed it with alcohol to hopefully kill the ones on the flowers.
I've recently applied a systemic pesticide to all my plants cause once while repotting I found a few root mealies. Would that be enough of a preventative measure to stave of the spider mites?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
This has never happened before so I'm pretty clueless as to what to do. I've checked the surrounding plants and found no signs of them. It seems to be localized to just the flowers of this one plant. I've isolated it for now and sprayed it with alcohol to hopefully kill the ones on the flowers.
I've recently applied a systemic pesticide to all my plants cause once while repotting I found a few root mealies. Would that be enough of a preventative measure to stave of the spider mites?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you