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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: NewYork 5a
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Oh good grief. But maybe not. I can't find in searches this one.
![]() I stepped out this morning after so much rain and damp soggy weather...70-75 days, 55-60 nights. Garden mites seem to like it hot and dry. Weather cleared late yesterday so I was searching for any mold PM spots. Reached for my spray and the sprayer and a 4inch pot seedling together were covered with a couple hundred tiny spiders. This happened overnight since I was out just last night before dusk potting up a few. Including the plant covered. Hope I did not destroy a beneficial. But they were well on their way to completely webbing the entire seedling. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin
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Those look rather large for spider mites. Perhaps those were just spiders of some sort.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: NewYork 5a
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Still searching and I think you are correct. Too large. Yet so many so fast.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2013
Location: New Mexico
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Those are not spider mites. Those are spiders and probably beneficial.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Central Texas - Zone 8A
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Those are spiders. They probably just had hatched.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Southern CA
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Definitely not the dreaded spider mites. Great news.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Den of Drunken Fools
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Baby spiders.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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A nest of baby spiders! Nice!
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Newfoundland, Canada
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I get nests of baby spiders hatching in the greenhouse every year and setting up on the tomatoes. They were at the farm greenhouse last year too. The ones around the tomatoes are a really small spider - they never get large.
![]() Oakley when I first saw these spiders I had the same worry - are they spiders or mites. Eventually figured out they are too large to be mites, but just the right size to eat em instead. ![]() |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: NewYork 5a
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Yup. they are not microscopic. Just so many so fast. I spritzed them off the seedling and moved everything
off the table. (it is supposed to be for dining anyway) ![]() a month now. spring is definitely here, (but not there ![]() |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Newfoundland, Canada
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Yeah, it's not yet baby spider season here (and for sure not in Bonavista!).
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Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: NewYork 5a
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