Hi to all, it the miss use off insecticides thats causing the band of them, people just don't read when they use them and this is causing to some extent the disappierring of one of the most needed insect there is, the Bee. also the contamination of our water surplies most water surplies are already contaminated with some type of chemical or poison.
soup and water for spidermites, mites don't like water but if you don't use soup mites make like a web like the spiders that is kind of water proof to some extent but the soup goes through it like when you got a pot with grees and water in it, grees flots on it but once you but the soup it breaks it up, same thing happens to the spider mites web and the water drouns them, their so small one drop of water is like a swimming pool to them, all insects breath though the bottom of their bodies, the got their nose between their legs in other words, if you notice some bugs make bubble under them when wet that why they don't droun, but the soup break up that bubble as it breaks water surface
you can also try cinnimon powder around your plants, that helps control mealy bugs on plants as ants don't like cinnimom and ants are the ones that carry mealybug on your plant in exchange for sweet juice the mealybug provide ants with, most mealy bugs don.t have wigs if you look at them up close, they depend on the ants to move them around, get rid of the ants and you get rid of most of the mealybugs, if you don't beleave me try this find an ant hill, por some cinnimon powder on it and wach for a while, you'll notice ants try to avoind it as much as they can, i use cinnimom sticks to keep ants out of my suger bowl, it works perfectly.
hope this helps a little
Your Friend Wilfred
