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title: "I’ve been treating this plant for what looks like spider mite damage,…"
description: "I’ve been treating this plant for what looks like spider mite damage, and just saw this dude cruising around this morning. I didn’t think spider mites were big…"
url: "https://getplanta.com/community/lKxUkhzRR_aIJD7o1QvtwQ/6592c949c9d2ff7cefb83b48"
community: "Pests, diseases and problems"
author: "FriendofVeg"
published: "2024-01-01T14:16:41.148Z"
language: "en"
image: "https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/yK11BiYfqVwCMHejsVfuI1LKT4d13qD_YfXYCCN4Xx4/ce99947d0a284219a28d7997998c9694.webp?size=large"
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# I’ve been treating this plant for what looks like spider mite damage,…

_Posted by FriendofVeg on 2024-01-01_

I’ve been treating this plant for what looks like spider mite damage, and just saw this dude cruising around this morning. I didn’t think spider mites were big enough to see with the naked eye. Is this a spider mite? (Pics are max zoom on my aged phone)

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## 2 comments

### FriendofVeg commented on 2024-01-01

This guy is definitely a crawler, no flying, tooling around the leaf edge and at one point on webbing that I couldn’t see until he started trapezing on it.

#### FriendofVeg replied on 2024-01-01

Maybe he was just making use of someone else’s web🙂. Either way I’ll be be ordering some predators in the near future.

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