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hello and welcome to hydrocentre
I'm Scott on his show you some spider mites. Now spidermites are very small
I apologise for the shakiness the camera but I'm actually at max
magnification to try and capture these buggers all moving around
so if I move my hand over here
There they are moving around
there they are
that's why its probably good to have a magnification
ah, like a jewlers loupe we sell those, but if you get these guys
they suck the sap at the leaf so if I just move over here you can see a
like a bronzing affect on the leaf, they've actually sucked the sap out and it takes a lot of numbers
to damage plants but when you notice there's a problem
it can be pretty devastating
so what you need to do is spray. Now usually I don't spray unless you need it
These Guys are crippling to a crop so always recommends
spraying now most sprays have no effect on these guys
I apologise for going out of focus
most sprays have no effect because it may kill the adults but the eggs
hatch out the next day and you never seem to break the cycle
so what you should use is a product we have called Kill-a-mite
Kill - a - mite for a 100ml bottle
at 1ml per litre sprayed on the spider mite
will be gone that kills the eggs as well as the adults
now if I zoom back to give you some idea of size again thats my hand there
and then see if you can see how big these guys are
you probably won't spot them until they've got a lot of numbers
but be aware that this sort of thing does happen
and we have an answer called Kill-a-mite so that's my recommendation