Re: Re: Re: Kitty's mites now neem

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• To: g*@hort.net
• Subject: Re: Re: Re: [CHAT] Kitty's mites now neem
• From: &* <g*@academicplanet.com>
• Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 16:41:11 -0500

Dusting sulfur - they hate the stuff. Would always dust myself - shoes,
socks and clothes when in chigger prone areas. Miserable itching.


Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: F M Ferrari
Sent: 5/11/2004 5:55:52 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: Re: [CHAT] Kitty's mites now neem

> YES THEY ITCH!!!!! I guess that's them! I thought that I always got them
> on my ankles but these babies have made it all the way to my neck! But
> the yard is full of them! How can I get rid of them???? Fran
> 
> 
> <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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