Well they have shown up! Dang I was so hoping I could go a year without having to fight them.
I noticed all my seedlings were looking really scorched and I thought it was just the heat and me letting them get too dry. I fertilized them and kept them watered only to see them decline a bit more so I checked under the leaves really closely and there they were. So I went out in the garden and looked at every plant that seemed a bit under the weather even if it was from fusarium and found spider mites on most of them to one degree or another. I sprayed just at daylight this morning with the permethrin, soapy water and IGR and by this evening all of the seedlings looked a bit better. I'm sure some of the larger plants will look better too but the damage was most notable on the seedlings. Now I just wait and see how long before I have to do it again.
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