Re: aphids and mandevilla
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- Subject: Re: aphids and mandevilla
- From: M* T*
- Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 00:49:40 -0500
Barb,
Small web-like things sound suspiciously like red spider mite to me.
The crusty, crystal stuff may just be a residue from something.
Look closely at the underside of some leaves and at those little
webby bits. If you see infinitesimal blackish dots and/or very, very
tiny reddish dots and when you hold a white piece of paper under the
leaf with these dots and tap the leaf hard, little dots fall off on
the paper, then I vote for red spider mite.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Barbara Tilton <tilton44@erols.com>
> Date: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 9:14 PM
> Hi-
> I'm wondering if I really just don't know what I'm talking about
(now there's a
> switch...!)
> I finally got around to rubbing the little white things on the
mandevilla and
> they're crusty! Not unlike damp sugar crystals. There are some
small web-like
> things around some of the unopened blooms and leaves and also where
the leaves
> and stem meet. Nothing flying around at all.
>
> Does anyone out there have a mandevilla with these things? Maybe
it's normal and
> I just don't know it.
>
> Thanks
> Barb (southeastern PA, where we finally got our first snowfall and
the mandevilla
> is about 3" taller than it was last weekend)
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