It would seem that what could threaten your home plantings? You carefully look after them, protect them from drafts, water and feed them. But, despite all the efforts, you suddenly find yellow ugly spots on the leaves. Further - more, on the twigs appears a web that has come from nowhere. It's time to sound the alarm. You have a spider mite on your plants.
It is almost impossible to see the invader with the naked eye, he is so small. His body does not even reach a length of one millimeter. But the rate of reproduction of this crumb is simply amazing, for some incomplete 12 days there is a change of generations in the colony. At the same time, new pests tend to occupy an ever larger area, easily penetrating neighboring plantings. In hot and dry conditions (namely, such a climate prevails in our apartments in winter), almost all your plants can be entangled in nets. Therefore, the spider mite - how to deal with it, we will now tell - must be destroyed at the initial stage of infection. And if you think that he won’t covet thorny cacti, then you are greatly mistaken. The parasite is omnivorous and does not disdain anything. He doesn't care what juice he sucks.
So let's roll up our sleeves and start actively exterminating the enemy. Unfortunately, this is not an easy task. To begin with, the spider mite on indoor flowers is not an insect, it is a representative of arachnids. Consequently, chemicals designed to exterminate common pests do not work on it. We will have to purchase special acaricides ("Rogon", "Neorogon", "Neoron", "Karate"). Good results are shown by Fitoverm and Karbofos. But even here, not everything is smooth, the body of small individuals quickly gets used to chemistry. The solution is simple: change the drug more often.
Spider mites on indoor flowers are also destroyed by "home" methods. This includes the following control methods: treatment with a strong soapy solution (we take household soap), rubbing the leaves with medical alcohol (be careful with delicate plants, it is better to leave this procedure for hard-leaved species), spraying with infusions of onions, garlic and pyrethrum.
By the way, about pyrethrum: in addition to spraying five times (the interval between repetitions is seven days), its powder is also used. Dusting them or colloidal sulfur is done after the spider mite has been washed off. On theIndoor flowers should be regularly washed with cold water leaves and twigs. And do not think that one procedure is enough to completely exterminate the colony. No, you need to prepare for a long war.
The small parasite is incredibly tenacious, it easily finds secluded places where it hides for a while. He may well sit out the season in small cracks, then to attack your plantings again.
Therefore, we do not weaken our protection, the spider mite on indoor flowers should not get a chance to live. We maintain good air humidity, regularly spray the leaves of our pets with water, remove old, obsolete branches, flowers, dried leaves. We brush off the dust. Irradiation (but not longer than one minute, maximum two) with ultraviolet radiation is also useful, the lamp must be directed from below. But be extremely careful not to singe the delicate green creatures.
