Tag Archives: mites

Insect Hotline Issue 4

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Spruce spider mite adult and egg. Photo provided by USDA Forest Service – Northeastern Area Archive, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org.

Close-up of spruce spider mite damage. Photo by Brian Kunkel, University of Delaware.

Heavy spruce spider mite infestation. Photo provided by USDA Forest Service – Northeastern Area Archive, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org.

Spruce spider mite damage. Photo provided by USDA Forest Service – Northeastern Area Archive, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org.

Southern red mite: eggs, nymphs, and adults. Photo provided by Jim Baker, North Carolina State University, Bugwood.org.

Damage by Southern red mite. Note the grayish leaves. Photo provided by Frank A. Hale, University of Tennessee, Bugwood.org.

What’s Hot HL 3

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Spruce spider mite eggs (peak egg hatch 172 GDD). Photo by USDA Forest Service Archive, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org.

Damage caused by spruce spider mite feeding (shows up during summer). Photo by USDA Forest Service – Northeastern Area Archive, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org.


Garlic mustard early. Photo by Nancy Fraley, USDI National Park Service, Bugwood.org.


A flowering garlic mustard plant. Photo by Dan Tenaglia, Missouriplants.com, Bugwood.org.


Forest understory invasion by garlic mustard. Photo by Leslie J. Mehrhoff, University of Connecticut, Bugwood.org.

Insect Hotline Issue 25

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SPRUCE SPIDER MITES. Spruce spider mites are “cool season”

mites commonly found feeding on fir, arborvitae, spruce,

Douglas-fir, and other conifers. Their sucking mouthparts cause

bleaching, yellowing, stippling or bronzing of the needles.

Spruce Spider Mite Pictures from USDA Forest Service – Region 4 Archive, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org

What’s Hot HL 19

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Spider mite damage.
John A. Weidhass, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Bugwood.org

Spider mites feeding on leaf.
John A. Weidhass, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Bugwood.org

Spider Mite Magnified.
Photo by David Cappaert, Michigan State University, Bugwood.org

Green June Beetle
Photo from University of Georgia Archives, University of Georgia, Bugwood.org

Cicada Killer and its Prey

Photo by Howard Ensign Evans, , Bugwood.org

Female Cicada Killer in Flight