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Reddit mentions of 2,000 Live Adult Predatory Mites - A Mix of Predatory Mite Species for Spider Mite Control - Ships Next Business Day!l
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- Predatory Mite Rate: 5-10 mites per square foot
- These mites are Natural Biological Control Agents agianst: Two Spotted Spider Mites, Broad Mites, Russet Mites, Rust Mites and More!
- Release every other week until infestation subsides
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Better yet I can buy 2000 live PREDATORY spider mites and leave them on my door step. Hahaha.
Predatory mites could solve your spidermite problem.
I'm not an expert and I don't know how productive or counterproductive regular spraying will be, in terms of the spider mites getting a tolerance to the spray, or the soil microbiome being affected, or residual spray harming the predatory arthropods.
If you're doing no-till and have enough humidity, I believe you can get by just on predators and no spray. I'd just get a mite combo like https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00I0ZXU18/ from the beginning and they'll be able to maintain a population just eating detritus if they can't get mites. I got that combo and it cleared up an infestation on a green onion plant and some strawberries that had reemerged a second year running.
I also got hypoaspis miles for fungus gnats and i can clearly see them running around in my worm bin 5-6 months after application. Better yet, they eat dormant spider mites underground.
The reviews on that link are informative. Some people spray until flower, like you propose, and stop for a week and spray water before they deploy predators. Maybe that works better? Beats me. I imagine it takes a while for the predators to start a population so I start them early.
BTI stays active for about two weeks, i would mix a tbsp of mosquto bits with water and water with that, dumping the bits on the soil. Worms like to eat the bits, they're corn cob chunks.
I hear ladybugs work great against spider mites but they may wipe out predator mites too, I'd do one or the other.
> predatory mites.