Pest · 51

Spider Mites across the plant library

51 of the 505 plant guides in this library name spider mites among their pests. Every one is listed below, linked to its guide and grouped by the kind of plant it is, so you can see at a glance which corners of a garden it turns up in.

This is the library read down a column instead of across a row. Each plant guide names its own pests; nobody publishes the other view — which of the plants you actually grow share one, and whether the timing they record agrees.

The 51 plants that list spider mites

Grouped by plant type. Where the library attached a note to the entry — “rare”, “on seedlings”, “in wet clay” — that note is printed next to the plant, verbatim, because two plants can name the same pest and mean opposite things by it.

Where it concentrates

Botanical families with more than one affected plant in the library, counted from the same 51 guides above. 6 of 51 are Araceae.

  • Araceae6 plants
  • Rutaceae4 plants
  • Asparagaceae3 plants
  • Asteraceae3 plants
  • Moraceae3 plants
  • Acanthaceae2 plants
  • Araliaceae2 plants
  • Cupressaceae2 plants

How the library qualifies it

Every distinct note the guides attach to an entry for spider mites, verbatim, with how many plants carry it. The other 34 guides list it bare, with no qualifier at all.

  • indoors×4
  • in drought×3
  • dry air×2
  • dry
  • dry air!
  • hot years
  • in dry spots
  • in heat
  • the #1 killer
  • the #1 killer in dry homes
  • the schefflera curse

Shared timing — and where it doesn’t agree

The library records no treatment window for spider mites. 31 of these 51 guides do record a spray or management program, but every one of them is about something else — a blight schedule, a curculio spray, a mildew note. None names spider mites. Rather than manufacture a consensus out of unrelated entries, this page reports the absence. The individual guides carry whatever timing the library does hold.

Timing only — the label is the law

This page reports when the guides in this library say to watch for spider mites and when a treatment is worth considering. It is not a recommendation to apply any product. Read and follow the product label before you spray — under federal law the label is the legal instruction, and using a pesticide against it is illegal.

  • Check the pre-harvest interval. Every product that’s cleared for an edible crop sets a minimum number of days between spraying and picking. Find it on the label before you spray anything you intend to eat.
  • Check the re-entry interval before you or anyone else works in the treated area again, and use the protective equipment the label names.
  • Confirm the product is registered for your crop in your state. This page groups many different crops together, and a product legal on one of them is not legal on all of them — state registrations differ too. Your state pesticide agency or local extension office can confirm both.
  • Rates and mixing instructions come from the label, never from us. We don’t publish them because they differ by product and formulation.

What else these plants get

Counted over the same 51 guides: the other problems most often listed on a plant that lists spider mites. These are co-occurrences in the library’s own records, not a claim that one causes another.

Root Rot26 sharedAphids15 sharedScale15 sharedMealybugs14 sharedPowdery Mildew5 sharedWhitefly4 shared

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