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Hope everyone is doing pretty well this summer with all of the craziness in the world. Unfortunately, the summer of 2020 has presented me with the largest spider mite infestation I've dealt with thus far. I believe the first juniper they took to is a goner - it was a bad combination of a very early infestation that I didn't notice along with weakening the tree by taking a tray of cuttings from it. Regardless, by the time I caught up to them they were on all of my junipers.
I have taken the following steps:
-Thoroughly sprayed out the foliage of all the trees a couple times a day the past week.
- Did a round one treatment with Sultan miticide
- Thoroughly sprayed out the foliage the next two days after drying.
- Applied Sultan round two roughly 48-72 hours later
- Thoroughly sprayed out foliage a day after that.
Round two was applied on 7/21/2020 - I went out and did the paper test and I am STILL seeing mites. Thing is, they aren't moving around the page like they were when I first discovered them, leading me to think they are dead.
My question is - when you guys have treated for spider mites in the past, did you notice they were still marking up the paper test even after treatment? Do you notice that they tend to scurry around the paper? I'll keep my eye on these trees and keep them quarantined for now. If I need to do another spray I will rotate to a bayer miticide and see if I get good results. I hate all this spraying, but I really don't want them to wreck my trees anymore than they already have.
Thanks for reading!
I have taken the following steps:
-Thoroughly sprayed out the foliage of all the trees a couple times a day the past week.
- Did a round one treatment with Sultan miticide
- Thoroughly sprayed out the foliage the next two days after drying.
- Applied Sultan round two roughly 48-72 hours later
- Thoroughly sprayed out foliage a day after that.
Round two was applied on 7/21/2020 - I went out and did the paper test and I am STILL seeing mites. Thing is, they aren't moving around the page like they were when I first discovered them, leading me to think they are dead.
My question is - when you guys have treated for spider mites in the past, did you notice they were still marking up the paper test even after treatment? Do you notice that they tend to scurry around the paper? I'll keep my eye on these trees and keep them quarantined for now. If I need to do another spray I will rotate to a bayer miticide and see if I get good results. I hate all this spraying, but I really don't want them to wreck my trees anymore than they already have.
Thanks for reading!