It would seem that it can threaten your home plantations? You care for them carefully, guard against drafts, water and feed. But, despite all the efforts, you suddenly find on the leaves yellow ugly specks. Further - more, on the twigs appears unclear where the cobweb has come from. It's time to sound an alarm. You have a spider mite on the plants.
It is almost impossible to see the invader with the naked eye, it is so shallow. His body does not even reach one millimeter in length. But the rate of reproduction of this crumb is simply shocking, for some incomplete 12 days there is a change of generations in the colony. At the same time, new pests tend to occupy an increasing territory, easily penetrating neighboring landings. In hot and dry conditions (namely, such a climate prevails in our apartments in winter), almost all your plants can be entangled with a net. Therefore, the spider mites - how to deal with it, we now tell you - should be destroyed at the initial stage of infection. And if you think that it's not prickly to prickly cactus, then you are very mistaken. The parasite is omnivorous and does not disdain anything. He does not care what juice to suck.
So we will roll up our sleeves and take up active annihilation of the enemy. Unfortunately, this is not an easy matter. To begin with, a spider mite on indoor flowers is not an insect, it is a representative of arachnids. Consequently, chemical preparations designed to eradicate common insect pests do not act on it. We will have to purchase special acaricides (Rogon, Neo-Giron, Neoron, Karate). Good results are shown by "Fitoverm" and "Carbophos". But even here everything is not all smooth, the organism of small individuals gets used to chemistry quickly. The output is simple: change the drug more often.
Spider mites on indoor flowers are destroyed and "home" ways. This includes the following methods of fighting: treatment with a strong soap solution (soap take economic), rubbing leaves with medical alcohol (be careful with tender plants, better leave this procedure for hard-leafed species), spraying with infusions of onions, garlic and pyrethrum.
By the way, about pyrethrum: in addition to five-fold spraying (the interval between repetitions is seven days), we also use its powder. Pollution by either colloidal sulfur is carried out after the spider mite has been washed away. On the room colors, it is necessary to regularly wash the 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 for a time it hides. He can easily sit in small cracks season, then again attack your landing.
Therefore, do not weaken your protection, a spider mite on indoor flowers should not get a chance to stay. We maintain good air humidity, regularly sprinkle the leaves of our pets with water, remove old, obsolete branches, flowers, dried leaves. We brush the dust. It is also useful to irradiate (but not longer than one minute, maximum two) with ultraviolet light, the lamp should be directed from below. But be extremely careful, do not burn the tender green creatures.