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| Hello everyone!
I'm very new to bonsai, but I've at least been doing all my homework. I bought several books and did tons of research online. I now have two bonsai trees that are growing very quickly. When I came out to do my early-morning watering today, I noticed a piece of web on one of my herbs with a small green and white spider hanging from it. When I misted my ficus bonsai I saw the web everywhere, on almost every single leaf! They made the entire web virtually overnight. In the "get off my plant!" excitement I forgot to take pics before I squished them. My little juniper had them too but not nearly as bad. Should I be concerned? We've also been having an aphid problem with a few plants but they haven’t gotten to the bonsai yet. Any thoughts? Suggestions? |
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- Posted by head_cutter Vietnam (My Page) on Sat, Apr 11, 09 at 21:25
| 'Little white spiders' doesn't mean much except that you also say they are making webs on the plants. Webs + spiders probably means that they are setting up for a buffet of bugs. You may have just 'squashed' your pest control team girl!!!! You also mention Aphids, if you have herbs you probably also have spider mites and white fly plus some scale insects which you may have not seen yet. Where I live I have ants, spider mites (both kinds), scale, thrips...just to mention a few things. I also have a very hungry pest control team of gecko's, spiders, other lizards and a few other things. I've only (occasionally) used a little bit of soap spray when the scale got out of hand on the Flowering Apricot trees and the Kumquat. I'd let the spiders set up again and just watch them (sort of like reality tv) to see what happens. Bob |
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