Whether you're already a plant-lover with an indoor or outdoor jungle or have been looking for the easiest houseplants to grow as a beginner, you've likely heard of the dreaded spider mites.

Apart from aphids and scales, spider mites are perhaps one of the worst garden pests you'll want to banish from your yard immediately. In high concentrations, they suck the foliage dry ...

The twospotted spider mite (TSSM) is a plant-feeding mite that is an extremely widespread pest affecting nearly all crop plants (over 1000 plant species). TSSM is very small in size and requires ...

Growing a vegetable garden is plenty of work on its own without worrying that your efforts will be ruined by hungry pests.

Researchers from Tokyo University of Science, Japan, identified two proteins in spider mites, called Tet3 and Tet4, that elicit defense responses in plants. Notably, they found that the expression ...

NILGIRIS: Tea farmers in Nilgiris decry damage to tea leaves due to the red spider mite attack brought about by the scorching ...

IT is known that a number of spider mite populations can develop a high degree of resistance against organo-phosphorus compounds 1–3. The mechanism of organo-phosphorus-resistance has been ...