ANOTHER PIC OF BROAD MITE DAMAGE

ANOTHER PIC OF BROAD MITE DAMAGE

Thanks Larry. I sure know what I don't want to see in my garden now.

Can you see them on the backs of your leaves? Do they also make a web in center of stems/new leaves? I have been able to see whatever mite it is that we have here, can watch them move.

I had that on some last year,I thought it was cyclamen mite...Avid to the rescue....

I haven't seen this on mine so far thank goodness.

Well I sprayed with Avid. Those suckers are deadbeats now. Will post some new pics next week. Hopefully showing new growth.

Not sure... but I think Cylamen and broad mites are the same thing. They are real teeny weenie!! ... and they don't make the webs like regular spidermites do.

What am I am looking for? there are a lot of leaves in that pic. Some look weird I guess.

No, Cyclamen and broad mites are a little different. Broad mites don't make webs, but do turn the undersides of the leaves a bronze color. I think the guy at UT said they live under the outer layer of the leaf, out of site. I will have to look up those papers I had on them.

When I had them (I think mine were cyclamen mites)... the foilage was all curled and deformed. Especially at the growing tips. Susie was the one that said she thought it was mites. I finally got a pocket scope and was able to see them. I couldn't see them without it.

Right Sue, the cyclamen mites cause the tips to curl and be deformed and die. Delphiniums get them and it causes something called "the blacks" where the tips of the plants grow deformed, turn black and then die. Cyclamen mites are also bad to get on African Violets.