Squirrel_Basher 17,102 Posted April 2, 2019 Report Share Posted April 2, 2019 They are loosely called spider mites but have 8 legs whereas mites have 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ArchieHood 3,692 Posted April 2, 2019 Report Share Posted April 2, 2019 3 minutes ago, foxdropper said: They are loosely called spider mites but have 8 legs whereas mites have 6 So is it a spider or a mite?........... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Squirrel_Basher 17,102 Posted April 2, 2019 Report Share Posted April 2, 2019 f**k knows mate 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PLEDGEY 496 Posted April 2, 2019 Report Share Posted April 2, 2019 A mite is a small arachnid that has 8 legs. The mite in the picture is a 'Clover Mite', they eat grass, clover and other plants high in nitrogen. You see them congregate on walls and can become a pest when they find their way indoors, leave a blood like mark when you crush 'um.. A 'Red Spider Mite' is the bane of gardeners. It'll suck all the goodness out of crops. It's way smaller, hardly visible, and usually first noticed when colonies of them have made large webs all over the tops of plants, by then your tomatoes are $ucked. The mite that's the main problem for poultry, and can be found on mammals as well, is Dermanyssus gallinae, these are the vector for a list of other problems. If you're having a problem with any mites, and don't want to use insecticides, you can use 'diatomaceous earth'. It's a very fine powder that's made of silica particles. Harmless to humans but when it gets on insects it cuts them to pieces and they dehydrate. You can use it for controlling mites in chicken houses. https://www.flytesofancy.co.uk/chickenhouses/Diatom_Parasite_Control.html 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greyman 32,062 Posted April 3, 2019 Report Share Posted April 3, 2019 Truth be told my eyesight ain’t that brilliant and counting legs on insects the size of a pin head would confuse me, but the most successful treatment I found to rid my hen house of the little red dots that were everywhere was with liquid paraffin, 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ArchieHood 3,692 Posted April 3, 2019 Report Share Posted April 3, 2019 So if it has 8 legs it mite be a spider......... 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PLEDGEY 496 Posted April 3, 2019 Report Share Posted April 3, 2019 A true red velvet mite, Trombidiidae, lives in India. Them bad boys is well large. The ones in this country don't get no where near to this size. They got 8 legs, arachnids, but ain't spiders. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greyman 32,062 Posted April 4, 2019 Report Share Posted April 4, 2019 20 hours ago, PLEDGEY said: A true red velvet mite, Trombidiidae, lives in India. Them bad boys is well large. The ones in this country don't get no where near to this size. They got 8 legs, arachnids, but ain't spiders. Even I could count the legs on that beast, certainly never saw any of them in my henhouse Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PLEDGEY 496 Posted April 4, 2019 Report Share Posted April 4, 2019 1 hour ago, Greyman said: Even I could count the legs on that beast, certainly never saw any of them in my henhouse These are nothing. Check out the size of these!! 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChrisJones 7,975 Posted April 4, 2019 Report Share Posted April 4, 2019 Do Killgerm still do their entomological ID's? Snag one on some sellotape and send it to them. They'll ID it and then you can work on a strategy for control/erradication. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PLEDGEY 496 Posted April 7, 2019 Report Share Posted April 7, 2019 On 04/04/2019 at 20:11, ChrisJones said: Do Killgerm still do their entomological ID's? Snag one on some sellotape and send it to them. They'll ID it and then you can work on a strategy for control/erradication. Yeah they do. The number for them I've got is 01924268513. I know you have too register your B.P.C.A. certificate number with them to purchase baits, poisons, sprays, stuff like that, but I don't know about their I.D. service. Just spray them with a bendiocarb like Fiacam 'W',.....spray EVERYTHIN' with Ficam 'W',....take no chances 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChrisJones 7,975 Posted April 7, 2019 Report Share Posted April 7, 2019 25 minutes ago, PLEDGEY said: Yeah they do. The number for them I've got is 01924268513. I know you have too register your B.P.C.A. certificate number with them to purchase baits, poisons, sprays, stuff like that, but I don't know about their I.D. service. Just spray them with a bendiocarb like Fiacam 'W',.....spray EVERYTHIN' with Ficam 'W',....take no chances It's over a decade since I used them but we used to send off any exotics we got through for their entomologists to look at. They were really handy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jigsaw 11,902 Posted April 8, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2019 Found this photo on the net, now that is a seriously creepy beast Quote Link to post Share on other sites
forest of dean redneck 12,023 Posted April 8, 2019 Report Share Posted April 8, 2019 Has he snared it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greyman 32,062 Posted April 8, 2019 Report Share Posted April 8, 2019 No he just keeps it on a lead 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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