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mc55

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red mites might ...
« on: June 24, 2006, 23:35:17 »
noticed some red spider mites crawling over my shallots earlier today - should I be worried, or live and let live ?
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« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2006, 05:57:09 »
May I suggest that, if they were RED, they weren't RSM - which are brown - & so TINY that you'd be hard pushed to see them!

Are these yours??  http://bugguide.net/node/view/2419/bgimage

Right or wrong, I have never found cause to dispose of them.
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« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2006, 09:06:12 »
It sems to be a good/bad year fro these little blood spiders. TALOTA!
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« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2006, 10:13:24 »
Blood spiders - that's the term!

Do you reckon they're pests, Eric?
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« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2006, 12:26:54 »
No, only nuisances, and anyway they eat other creatures so red mites may be on the menu!
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« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2006, 12:53:48 »
So sorry - RSM quote - they go red in the Autumn. By which time, if you still have them, you've lost everything!!
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« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2006, 19:27:00 »
Hmm, seems like maybe they are not so good to have around.  They were very tiny and guess could have been a brownish-red, but they showed up quite easily against the soil.

Will have another look at the w/e and see how many I can spot - the shallots are planted at the base of a fruit tree (apple) ... maybe they're after the tree not the shallots.

Would watering with a bit of fairy liquid help ?
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