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What's funny is I just
saw this on Dateline NBC last night. Farmer's use these preditory mites
and Disneyland uses them exclusively! Where do you purchase
them?
Snow
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To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 2:09
PM
Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Spider Mites
Predatiory mites known as 'persimilis' are extremely effective. I
had the worst outbreak of spider mites I have ever seen in my shadehouse,
nursery stock and garden last (Aust) summer and they cleared up the lot in a
few weeks. I still haven't seen a single spider mite after 5 months.
In terms of safety, effort, result and cost they are far more
effective than any spray!
From: "Michael Marcotrigiano"
<mmarcotr@email.smith.edu>
Reply-To: Discussion
of aroids <aroid-l@gizmoworks.com>
To: "Aroid-L"
<aroid-l@gizmoworks.com>
Subject: Re: [Aroid-l]
Spider Mites
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:00:53
-0400
>They like low humidity. That is one of the main reasons
they build up.
>There are chemical miticides if he is not the
"organic"
type.
>
>_______________________________
>
>Michael
Marcotrigiano, Ph.D
>Director of the Botanic Garden and Professor of
Biological Sciences
>Smith College, Lyman Conservatory, College
Lane
>Northampton, MA 01063
>email:
mmarcotr@smith.edu
>voice: 413-585-2741; fax:
413-585-2744
>www.smith.edu/garden
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are poems that earth writes upon the sky,
>We fell them down and turn
them into paper,
>That we may record our emptiness.
>~ Kahlil
Gibran
>
> >>> "D. Christopher Rogers"
<crogers@ecoanalysts.com> 4/25/2007 3:08 PM
>
>>>
>Howdy,
>
>Anyone have a good method for
dealing with spider mites? The keep
>popping up
>in my
friendâ??s greenhouse. They really seem to like
Amorphophallus,
>Xanthosoma, Alocasia, and Colocasia, ignoring
everything else. He has
>been
>using neem oil, but it seems to
kill off leaves. He went to a weaker
>concentration, which knocks down
the mites immediately and saves the
>leaves,
>but even after
spraying twice a day for two weeks, they just pop
right
>back
>up. They appear to be the two-spotted spider
mite.
>
>Thank you in
advance,
>Christopher
>
>D. Christopher
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