If your once-vigorous plant is starting to look sickly, spider mites may be the culprits. These tiny, plant-feeding arachnids hide in plain sight. At first, your plant may look a little “off,” but you ...

Because spider mites like hot and dry weather, populations continue to wreak havoc on our garden crops. Tomatoes, in particular, seem to be bearing the brunt of spider mite pressure this year. From a ...

Your plants may not like the dry indoor air at this time of year, but there's one uninvited houseplant pest who revels in it, Tetranychus urticae, aka the two-spotted spider mite. Due to their tiny ...

They are tiny but deadly — to your garden, that is. We’re talking about spider mites, a minuscule member of the arachnid family with an enormous appetite. Not to be confused with dust mites, these ...

Question: We always have spider mites on our flowering garden phlox and a few other perennials in the summer. The leaves look speckled with tiny pin-pricks of white, and we can see their webs on the ...

Spider mites are stubborn pests that can feed on your houseplant's tissue and sap. They thrive in warm, dry environments with low humidity levels. To eradicate spider mites, quarantine your plant and ...

Bermuda grass is a good choice for a lawn in full sun because it is drought tolerant, heat tolerant and spreads quickly. Unfortunately, those same characteristics make it one of our most persistent ...

One quite common houseplant pest that I just noticed on those lovely variegated ivies I'm overwintering is the spider mite. Mites have four pairs of legs so they're not true insects, but are placed in ...