Red spider mites cause lots of harm to your garden by killing shrubs and trees. They also reproduce quickly and by killing these mites, you can save your plants from the damage. You can easily spot these red mites crawling around on your houseplants in your garden. They come in various colours like red, green or white. You need to move the infested plants away from healthy plants immediately when you see signs of an infestation. It is required to prevent the spread of mites and in case, it is difficult for you to separate infected plants, you can cover the surrounding plants with protective plastic or other bags for preventing the infestation from spreading.
You can take a spray bottle, filled it with water and spray it on infested plants in such a way that it gets upwards from the bottom of the plant and against the bottom side of the leaves because these are the areas where mites are commonly found. You need to repeat this every alternate day for a week. In case, the infestation continues, you can use more powerful mite-killing products like miticide or miticidal soap to the infested plant. You need to soak each leaf in the soap thoroughly with the spray bottle or you can also dunk the container plants completely into the soap solution for full coverage. You need to wait for five days before repeating this treatment. You should apply three treatments with a gap of five days between each treatment for ensuring that you have killed the mite infestation.
You can purchase the miticides and other treatment materials from the garden centres and nurseries. In case you find it difficult to control mite infestation, you can contact an expert at a garden centre service for help. These professional uses stronger chemicals for killing mites effectively. There are some pesticides and miticides that can cause damage to certain types of plants and trees. Therefore you need to be careful before applying miticides.
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