It would seem that could threaten your home plantings? You care for them with care, protect from drafts, water and feed. But, in spite of all efforts, you suddenly find yellow ugly spots on the leaves. Further - more, on the branches there appears an incomprehensible web from where it came from. It's time to sound the alarm. You have a spider mite on plants.
It is almost impossible to see the occupier with the naked eye, he is so shallow. Its body does not even reach a length of one millimeter. But the breeding rate of this crumb is simply staggering, for some incomplete 12 days there is a generation change in the colony. At the same time, new pests are striving to occupy an increasingly large territory, easily penetrating neighboring landings. In hot and dry conditions (namely, such a climate prevails in our apartments in winter), almost all of your plants can be entangled in snares. Therefore, the
spider mite - how to deal with it, we will now tell you - must be destroyed at the initial stage of infection. And if you believe that he will not be too prickly for prickly cacti, then you are greatly mistaken. The parasite is omnivorous and does not disdain anything. He does not care what juice to suck.
So roll up our sleeves and take up the active extermination of 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. Therefore, chemicals designed to eradicate common insect pests do not act on it. Have to buy special acaricides ("Rogon", "Neorogon", "Neoron", "Karate"). Good results show Fitoverm and Karbofos. But here, not everything is smooth; the organism of small individuals gets used to chemistry quickly. The solution is simple: change the drug more often.
The spider mite on indoor flowers is also destroyed by "home" methods. This includes the following control methods: treatment with a strong soapy solution (we take laundry 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 onions, garlic and pyrethrum infusions.
By the way, about feverfew: in addition to five-fold spraying (the interval between repetitions is seven days), its powder is also used. Pollination with either colloidal sulfur is carried out after the spider mite has been washed off. On indoor flowers, regularly flush leaves and twigs with cold water. And do not think that one procedure is enough to completely exterminate the colony. No, you need to tune in to a long war.
The small parasite is incredibly tenacious; it easily finds itself secluded places where it hides for a while. He may well sit out in small cracks in the season, then to attack your landings again.
Therefore, we do not weaken our protection, the spider mite on indoor flowers should not get a chance to stay. We maintain good air humidity, regularly spray the leaves of our pets with water, remove old, obsolete branches, flowers, dried leaves. Brush off the dust. It is also useful to irradiate (but not longer than one minute, maximum two) with ultraviolet light, the lamp must be directed from below. But be extremely careful not to scorch the delicate green creatures.