Re: Re: Kitty's mites now neem

Nope, we have the same tiny tiny little red bugs here in Iowa...don't know what they are, either.


Melody, IA (Z 5/4)

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 --- On Tue 05/11, Jesse Bell < silverhawk@flash.net > wrote:
From: Jesse Bell [mailto: silverhawk@flash.net]
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 10:02:22 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Re: [CHAT] Kitty's mites now neem

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