Spider Mite webbing on a plant in the woods
This is another shot of a shroud of webbing covering leaves of a non-native weed along our road today. I believe the plant is American Black Nightshade (Solanum americum aka Solanum nodiflorum, Solanaceae) and the webbing is the work of Spider Mites (family Tetranychidae, Acari, Arachnida). I have a shot of a single mite with this photo from yesterday, and you can see many more of them as the tiny orange specks on the web in this photo. Not all the specks are mites, I guess the rest are frass or mite poop. In time they will strip the plant, and I'm glad I've only seen them on this one weed and not on natives or our garden plants. Happy Web Webnesday! (San Marcos Pass, 21 October 2020)
Spider Mite webbing on a plant in the woods
This is another shot of a shroud of webbing covering leaves of a non-native weed along our road today. I believe the plant is American Black Nightshade (Solanum americum aka Solanum nodiflorum, Solanaceae) and the webbing is the work of Spider Mites (family Tetranychidae, Acari, Arachnida). I have a shot of a single mite with this photo from yesterday, and you can see many more of them as the tiny orange specks on the web in this photo. Not all the specks are mites, I guess the rest are frass or mite poop. In time they will strip the plant, and I'm glad I've only seen them on this one weed and not on natives or our garden plants. Happy Web Webnesday! (San Marcos Pass, 21 October 2020)