Put simply, if it appears like someone painfully painted the foliage in white or yellow dots, odds are spider mites are hard at work because these dots represent their feeding points. Concurrently ...

Adult TSSM also have two large dark colored spots on the sides of their bodies hence their common name. Female spider mites begin laying eggs in the early spring. The eggs are spherical and slightly ...

Arimura. "In our previous research, we identified two tetranins, labeled Tet1 and Tet2, as elicitors in the salivary glands of two-spotted spider mites; these substances induce defense responses ...