Spider bream - the most common pest of indoor flowers, easily gets to our apartment by all available means: wind, with garden flowers, with earth, new plants. Ticks are of different types, some are larger and brighter colored, easier to see, some are so small that they can only be found with very good vision or with a magnifying glass.
The first alarm bell, the signal to look for a tick is the yellowing of the leaves, and the yellowing is chaotic, no myzilka chlorosis, just discolored spots on the leaves, in various places, gradually taking on a yellow color and merging into large spots. But you may never see the web at all, but if it is not there, it does not mean that there is no tick.
Spider mite on houseplants
How to get rid of a tick
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Read the full article on how to get rid of a tick, including on orchids: Spider tick how to fight
Jakonya: I poisoned a spider mite with vertimec. Helped well, in one month for two. Also at one time helped the "anti-weed" of the Green Pharmacy of the gardener. But on the rack, where it is hot, nothing helps from ticks. She brought out the tick on the calateas only when she removed them from the rack.
KozaNostra: The tick is good at killing cat shampoo. And I killed with an English remedy for ants and all crawling pets. Three times with a break a week was enough. Isolate the diseased plant and process all former in contact.
Then you can make a control check for the presence of a tick. Place a mug of fresh cucumber on the soil. Ticks will gather for lunch in 15-20 minutes, and maybe faster .
Give the plant a warm shower. The tick doesn't like it.
Ljuba: And alcohol or vodka (which is at home) helps me better from the tick. Alcohol is better because it evaporates faster. You can wipe all the leaves (especially the underside) and even the trunk with a brush. Oh, how the tick doesn't like it.
Kroky: From the tick and thrips, I successfully used phytoverm spraying, enough for the first time, the second for my own reassurance, but the infection was weak. A week later, epin treatment was used to support the plants.
milim: I also use phytoverm. Although it is considered not a very strong remedy, in my case it helped with the tick. Yes, and what is good, 3rd hazard class, otherwise I have a cat that loves to stick its gray spout everywhere. Of course, you try to do everything as carefully as possible,... but, still.
And for prevention, I arrange a shower for plants selectively. You don't drag everyone right away, it will take a lot of time... Today a couple from one windowsill, tomorrow a C grade from another.
Veta: I fought the tick for a long time and tediously. On a banana, she was taken out for one spraying with insecticide from Bona Forte, the rest - when she sprayed a mixture of phytoverm with green soap. Solution, of course.
Green soap is a potassium liquid soap designed specifically "to protect indoor and garden plants from diseases and pests." It is used to combat aphids, spider mites, thrips, flower eaters, etc. In addition, they are sprayed from diseases: powdery mildew, phytophthors, rust, scab, etc. Only soap solution is used, but more often and better in a mixture with other drugs, which reduces the consumption of the drug and increases its effect and duration .
Jakonya: If there is no green soap, you can also add zooshampun from fleas to the solution. In general, flea repellents also act on pests. Ticks in particular. People told me that. They even advised how to bring out the spider tick. I forgot the name. Drops to the withers from fleas. I haven't tried it myself. But they say the tick is killed at one time and for a long time.
Cream: Somewhere I read and noted for myself that you cannot breed ticks with an actor. Ticks are harassed by acaricides (neoron, omyte) or insectoacaricides (talstar, pegasus, agravertin, phytoverm). A little liquid soap or the same Fairy can be added to the solution of the drug for better "sticking" of the drug to the leaves. It is usually recommended to process 3 times every week.
The tick loves dry air, so it is worth increasing the humidity, more often to arrange a shower and "washing" plants.
In general, for the prevention of plants subject to tick attack, I spray once a month with phytoverm.
And it appears on the same plants, maybe because you did not extract it to the end, large individuals were removed with the same soap, and the larvae remained.
Natalie: The first way to fight is hot water, so that the hand can hardly endure. Under strong pressure, water on all leaves, stems, topsoil. Repeat every 5 days, three times, then once a week three more times, then once a month. This method is good because no chemistry, ticks do not tolerate hot water.
ITALIA: I also highly recommend Etisso Blattlaus-Sticks - a drug in the form of sticks. The active ingredient is dimethoate. Great for fighting spider mites and other pests. The most important thing is not to spray the plants, but to breathe poisons accordingly. It's not very cheap. But your own health is more expensive.