Re: Re: Kitty's mites now neem
Fran, I see those little red bugs in my garden too. They are tiny, mite
size, but not microscopic...'bout half the size of an aphid and shaped
kind of like a spider or tick. Never been bitten by one...but when I see
them, there are usually a bunch of them all over a rock or in one
specific area. Don't know what they are. Maybe it's an Okie bug thing.
Jesse
<gardenqueen@academicplanet.com> wrote:
chiggers ya reckon? do the bites itch like H when you get them?
Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: F M Ferrari
Sent: 5/11/2004 3:03:30 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Kitty's mites now neem
> I don't know what these tiny red bugs are but they pack a wallop of a
> bite! Haven't seen webbing so I guess that I'm currently free of those
> type of mites! Fran
>
>
> David Franzman wrote:No Fran, that's not the one. You really can't see them with the unaided
> eye. I used to be able to but my sight is going down hill. They are less
> than the size of a pin head and they are incapable of biting. They stick
> they long straw like sucker into leaves and suck out the chlorophyll. If
> you have a really bad problem you can see their webbing over the tips of the
> plants. Otherwise the leaves looked mottled yellow/green. Common on
> houseplants. Anyway, they would be herbivores and not carnivores.
>
> David Franzman
> A Touch of the Tropics
> www.atouchofthetropics.net
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