Get Rid of Spider Mites 

Ive been battling these for years. We have had a drought which has made it challenging to keep humidity high and they have decimated our veggies and ornamentals. This is one of the only genuinely helpful videos out there! They always seem to come back but controlling a small population is so much easier. For those wondering, don't bother with the homemade vinegar or chilli sprays, they did nothing for me other than strip the natural oils from the plants making them more vulnerable.

I find that if you are going to invest your time spraying things like the underside of the leaf, you might as well just use soapy water and a sponge. Takes care of the majority of the mites especially those under the webbings. You can even customize the size of the sponges by cutting them up or use a very soft bristle toothbrush. Plus there is zero risk of the mites developing resistance as you are killing them via physical action instead. This is awesome for the start of the infestation and should prevent most infestations from getting out of control. You obviously need to regularly scout by looking closely at your crops at least weekly, which you should be doing anyway. Thankfully spider mites are so easy to spot.

You're doing Lord's work Jason. Every youtuber should learn from you how to produce a video. No BS, straight to the point !!!

You are amazing, this is such a comprehensive breakdown of the whole spectrum of solutions! Exactly what I was looking for!! I recently saw that my baby basil n luffa and money plants have erupted with spider mites and I was so frantic and upset! But now that I know all this I’m confident of what to do next :) thank you so much!! You’ve helped me a lot hehe

Oh that's cool, next level gardening - planting/landscaping for predator insects! Great idea!

This is my online rose bible. Thank you so much for all the actionable information. I'm currently dealing with a spider mite calamity!

Thank you so much Jason for a lovlely very helpful video and information i did spray my rose tree and Wow it has a flower and a. bud which is growing beautifully

Fantastic video, very well presented and informative. Good job!

After having a massive outbreak in my house, just found out these suckers also survive in aquatic surface plants. Yep. Had to take all the plants off my sunroom, only to find out that they still managed to call dibs on a tiny aquarium with some surface plants (they managed to create small webs between the water surface and the aquarium walls. Tiny nasty little creatures.

great video. thank you for sharing such valuable information, let the battle begin

Something that worked for me (at least on a lemon tree) - I set it outside. My hypothesis was that the army mites in nature would rally, and save my little tree. So I put it outside. And it worked. Brought the tree inside for winter, and it did fine. No sign of spider mites.

I had a problem with my plans I did not know what was the matter it just kept getting worse until I seen your video Thanks so much so much appreciate it now I know .

Thank you. Well presented and just what I was looking for 💯

Great Video, very informative. I use a fogger type sprayer. Does a much better job of reaching those hard to get areas.

good pumping rhythm and powerful spray, and I loved the way he rubbed the bottom.

Thank you, my garden is now saved !

Awesome video very informative and straightforward

Thank you sooo much. I just started an indoor hydroponic garden two months ago.

Such a great video! I greatly appreciate this. I have a lot of indoor plants and ended up with spider mites.

😃🌹❤️ thank you so much stay safe keep well happy and healthy

Very informative, thank you.

very helpful and informative! thanks

Excellent presentation.

This Tha Best Video ive seen about this!

Good informative video. Increasing humidity levels with a humidifier works wonders for getting rid of spider mites around indoor orchids.

Great video mate. Thank you 🙏

Very useful, thank you very much~

I saw nets and really small things moving on them one day on my dandelions, I thought they were just normal spiders of some sort, but when many of the leaves started falling off, I had to take some action, so I realized by this video that they are spider mites, so I really need to try this I guess

I just used a mixture of washing up liquid and rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle. Worked well. Also works on wasps.

Very educational video. 🤗

You're a great speaker!

Very good love all the information

Ladybugs easy quick and guarantee death to mites for indoor use. Amazon has them year round and they're cheap . These cute insect will devour up to 100 mites a day each.

Thanks for info 👍🏽

I think I had them all on my mexican petunias. Except one that sprouted from my soil that was made by burning leaves, sticks etc. And the ash/dirt pile was in the open with sun or semi sun conditions. Air circulation and I never or rarely watered it

Hi Jason, I have an leave disease going through my roses. Top of the leaves look like its been hit by spider mites, but no damage on the under side, no webbing either. Been hot and dry here. Gonna spray insecticidal soap every few days, hopefully that works.

I find mulching plants causes the spider mites to climb onto the sides of the pot or container to stay dry and I can periodically wipe them off with a cloth soaked in strong homemade distilled alcohol.

Thank you so much for the video on spider mites I did the spray and sprayed my rose trees. Thank you for a very interesting video Annie

Sir, what pen scanner r u using please let me know. thank you for this wonderful video.

I found a pod of real spider younglings and transferred a few of them to the tent, seems to work nice.

Jason, just live your video lessons.

I usually use a hose with enough pressure to spray the spider mites right off of my plants in our greenhouse

bayer 3 in 1 is probably the best thing on the market for mites. It's an actual true mitecide. From what I've read pyretherium or however you spell it isn't even completely effective mites are extremely resistant to even pesticides. I know bayer 3 in 1 is the best at least it was a few years ago maybe something better is out now because in the salt water reef hobby we have a very annoying pest that is a salt water mite that resists all coral chemical dips. Bayer 3 in 1 is what is used to dip corals to truly kill off all pests. Bayer 3 in 1 completely solves the issue in one spray but it is a chemical. I also use it for my house plants. Every 6 months I spray everything outside and after an hour I rinse off my houseplants to get rid of any residue since it should have killed everything by then and also soaked into the plants good enough as a systemic. Thought I should share since mites really are a nightmare to get rid of. I wish there was something I could just spray my plants inside and not have to wash off and was natural safe effective but have never heard of such a thing. There are plants that react badly to neem oil.

You are the best!

This video was so helpful. I’ve been growing a rose cutting in my basement since fall, and noticed the leaves looking diseased and the little webs. I wonder where they come from?

Very informative video. One question though, are any substance that you recommend can damage the plant if it enter their water source? I'm currently planting water spinach hydroponically and I'm not confident in my ability to prevent contamination

I don't spray for insects and just let other insects get rid of the bad ones for me. It's amazing and it works. Great info.

Thanks!

I don't do indoor plants largely d/t spider mites. I agree the predators will come. I learned this from "Living Web". We're getting our roses ready to go into winter. I am going to plant some radish around mine. Radish pulls up nutrient and it winter kills.

Someone sent me a lovely Calathea recently full of spidermites. Didn’t check my plants for one day and found the effers. Took everything out of pots, rinsed everything upside down in the bathtub, rinsed off the roots, have Dr. Earths spray and diluted in water - sprayed everything individually and placed in cups of water outside

If an outdoor container plant is severely infested and you want to dispose of the plant, can you reuse the soil in the container? I have a 20 gallon container with quality soil in it and my cucumber plant was destroyed by the spider mites.

I’ve found if you want to have an indoor and outdoor garden. You need to tend to your indoor garden in the mornings after a shower and not at all again that day. Most common cause of outbreak is accidentally bringing them in on yourself.

I appreciate this. Thank you. My vegetable garden started deteriorating after a heavy rain. All but 1 of my broccoli plants rotted the cabbage plants that were flourishing started to rot. I noticed the webs of the spider mites first. Now they are all covered in the little brown mites. Is there any hope? Or should I just pull everything out?

Thanks for the video. I have a huge indoor succulent collection. It’s been attacked by spider mites and they suddenly look terrible. I’m considering using Avid spray . Thanks know it’s not natural. But I gotta act fast . I’ve spent thousands on my plants . Anyway,. I’m gonna try predator mites . How quick would they knock them down ?

We went out of town and my palm tree was full of SM so I put it outside

Thank you I'm just begging my collection of roses in my new home in Texas I just hope I don't have big problems with my garden I bought two climber red and a white they are from Home Depot they were bare root in February I'm looking for roses that might like Texas weather if you have suggestions I fo prefer climbers my califorina home I know what to do I'm not even sure what zone I'm in here I'm between Fort Worth and Dallas

Love Jason so much!🤙 Spidermites indoors on multiple plant types. (They love Chinese lanterns.) I've used neem oil frequently and find their numbers are now very low with no new webs. Before I purchase anything else is complete eradication possible or can you only manage their numbers down to this point? Thank you, to anyone who offers help. 🌱🙏

Any idea how to get rid of those evil things on outdoor roses that eat the leaves leaving them looking like Swiss cheese? I've been putting Gold Bond powder on them, which seems to keep them at bay, but I'm concerned it might hurt the bees. Any suggestions?

I have two parlour palms that were infested. I made a 10lt bucket of neem and dunked the plants in. It seemed to work, for now.

Wow really good video! I'm new to indoor gardening does thiswthod also kill thrips?

My Moringa leaves are starting to get speckled and yellowing and after looking with my mini microscope, I do see webs, round globules and some yellow bugs that look like the spider mites. I spayed Neem oil spray. The problem I see is that it's hard to spray neem oil on the underside of the leaves. Right now the plants are in ground and are 4-10 inches so any other suggestion to apply on the underside? Thanks. Suscribed.

It seems odd to me that you didn't mention abamectin. It seems odd because the only place I could obtain it was from a rose grower in the USA. It's a natural product, made from fermented fungus, and is harmless to humans. It's actually used internally in medicine. The bottle I had contained 8 ounces, and yes it was expensive. The best things usually are. My bottle lasted over 10 years and was still effective (even though I eventually upped the dose to 4X). Plants are not affected by it as they are by soaps and oils. With all the problems with mites so many growers have, it puzzles me that the BEST solution is the one nobody mentions. I want the cure, not the treatment ;) The brand name is Avid. A bottle can be shared to reduce expense. Single application can be effective, because it has residual translaminar properties. EDIT: It does have some toxicity for a very small percentage of humans, and dogs are sensitive to it. It's something that is rarely used, so exposure to it is likely to be very minimal.

I just have a problem with them all over me when sitting on my swing. How do I get rid of them with a pet

We have Italian Cypress that are badly invested. This is completely new to us. Oh boy...

They are butts good Info they are everywhere in Tallahassee fl

This was informative! We just realized spider mites were what was on our burning bushes. We sprayed them w insecticidal soap but the leaves r turning colors and falling off. Is the plant dead or will it come back next year if we keep up w spraying?

Thank you for this comprehensive video. I really appreciate it. I would like to order plants for next year, but spider mites, grubs, crickets, grasshoppers, and aphids together have killed so many things in the last two years. I had to reseed the lawn, and replace several plants. I still haven't replaced several more, and more plants are dying. I feel like this coming year, I should just focus on biological controls. Do you think a year will be enough to get the situation under control?

Neem oil again. Awesome. Thank you!

Do these spider mites make lot's of spider web all over the leaves?

I have a mature avocado tree, about 15 to 20 feet tall. What do you recommend, it has spider mites as the leaves are spotted and I can see webbing underneath it. All the sudden more and more leaves are dropping including smaller leaves. I’m in California and it’s a Hass avocado tree.

magnesium + sulfur + molybdenum + boron foliar for larval insects - add sugar/molasses versus beetles. this is a nutritional spray for plants

Thank you very much for this video. I have lots of expensive indoor plants and Spider Mites are my worst nightmare. I'm located in France (semi-continental, almost continental climate) what beneficial predator would you recommend ? Phytoseiulus persimilis / neoseiulus fallacis or macrolophus pygmaeus ? I've tried lacewings, but it was not so great. (I have mostly aroïds and euphorbia, so almost no flowers...)

Hi, thanks for your video… My rose is facing spider mite attacks but its also flowering now.. Can I do the treatment for spider mites now?

When should I start planting rose in Michigan? It start snowing around November until April or May.

Hello, thanks for sharing, I live in Peú and want to know how you attack Planococcus citri, I have my roses with that and is pretty hard to remove it. Thank you.

i have one 6 ft lemon tree in my apt, would you suggest introducing these other insects? how many? thx

How can you tell apart the webbings of spider mites and from regular spiders?

I’m going to trust this video and order the predator for the spider mites. Fingers crossed for my cultivation, it’s being attacked!

I was wondering what type or brand of soap I could use to mix in with the neem oil? I bought the Dyna-Gro Pure Neem Oil you recommended, but forgot about soap! My fiance uses something called green soap, so I didn't know if maybe that would work. I just don't want to harm my crotons. I made the mistake of using dish soap before on another plant, so I wanted to get it right.

This is good info. Thanks. Do you struggle at all with the Japanese Beetles? They love to eat roses and are quite the pest.

Sulphur is good!? And naturally

I heard spraying with black tea would do work. 2 teabags steeped in cold water overnight. Any thoughts on that?

Anyone know if diluded orange oil and water could work? Got spider mites but dont want to "burn" the plant.

I just lost all my weed plants to spider mites. Good luck and keep up the good work

Can anyone tell me the camera he’s using to look at the plant please ??

Can spider mites get on oak trees or cedar trees ? If so I think they are in my house coming from the trees is this true ?

Do you have a video on rose die back please?

can you mist plants and use a predator mite mite together or will the damp conditions scare off the predator mtie aswell?

and attacking via the plantroots?

When you spray neem oil....how many days should you wait to apply it again.

if i have to spray everyone of those leaves..why, i am just getting my vacuum cleaner out and suck them up to their deaths..aphids earwigs, mites, thrips...my vacuum doesnt care...have fun

I have desert rose seedlings and mature plants that bloom, they were beautiful, even picot worthy until, .these fast moving reddish brown insects attacked the table and began crawling throughout the plants. I've also seen frogs and gekos on the table so I thought they might have dropped something on the plants. Now I see the spider webs from leaf to leaf on a few plants. The foliage is brown, the healthy leaves have turned yellow and are falling off . On the underside of the leaves you can see the damage. I have sprayed the plants with antibacterial soap and next day with neem oil .I'm sweeping up green and yellow leaves every day.. I read somewhere that desert roses don't like there roots sitting in water, while I do have good drainage, I struggle with trying to balance their need for water in hot humid Central Florida, in the full sun. What I'm doing is obviously not working . Any suggestions ?

Can you spray with neem oil to prevent from getting spider mites or does it only work if you already have them?

Could I dunk my small house plants (the foliage) into a bucket of insecticidal soap since I cant get a sprayer?

Are these mite harmful to the bee that I use to pollen my flowers???

What do you mean- philasis? Filasus? Cant find anything on that

Thank you! We just found spider mites on our baby Majesty Palm. We’re going to try this! Should we isolate the infested plant from the others? Will the mites travel to our other houseplants?

Hi, is arbico organics a good place to get Phytoseiulus persimilis from?

Do you rinse the insecticidal soap off after a bit or leave it? No one ever says one way or the other.

Can you tell me if the predatory mites are harmful to pets? I have birds, and I'm worried if I get an army of them, they'll go after my birds when they're done w/ the spider mites. Really love the idea of them, though.