Oh gosh Karma, I'm sorry. I have seen some obvious big webs on one of my brugs but it looks healthy so I think its a regular spider web. I never see webs on the ones that look like they could have mites. They just get funky looking leaves. I dread the winter, lol. I don't know what to tell you about yours. Could it be something other than mites?

I don't know KHT, maybe your solutionis an ax to the neighbors tree? I haven't sprayed mine yet because it has rained or been windy, I may spray today. I've heard avid is another good one, other than that I don't know what to tell you. Especially since they got covered in webbing so fast, I usually can spot them on mine before the webbing gets too bad.
Shawn

The other big gun to try would be Avid. I have never heard of Avid & Forbid not working.

Linda

pagrdnr, I was showing off my Brugs out front just last night and there was no webbing at all. But after the rain from last night there was webbing all over them. I did the hot water dumped over the top the the plant and then again I sprayed them with Forbid, plus sprayed up and down the lot line. This evening they were checked and no webbing.

Are you sure its not little spiders? I have these tiny lil white spiders on mine..reg spiders. They make webs like you wouldnt believe, I am taking them off every day. When I see a leaf looks curled and ucky like it may be mites, Usually I find one of these tiny white spiders in the fold of the leaf, and webbing surrounding him. The webs came so fast it really sounds like reg spiders to me. Esp since it was right after the rain. They all need to rebuild their webs. This is a bad time of year for them, well good for them, bad for us. Lotsa babies hatching here..maybe the same for you?

I use 1 oz Hort. Oil on the neighbors. They are up wind and that is where my mite problems originates now. I hit his stuff at night with a hose end sprayer about once a month. It is too hot to use any stronger.

I used to have the explosive mite problem where every plant almost over night had mites. I do use a spreader sticker an agricultural product. It is $ 13.00 a gallon at Tractor supply and I believe it might just kill mites all by itself it sure does improve the result of Forbid and Avid.

My .02 cents or today .1435 cents.

Well 24 hours without mite webbing so I know this stuff works but not for long if your neighbors are loaded with them. Thanks jeep, I hit them with neem oil and hot water when I do mine and I'll even do it when they see me do it. They won't even mow their yard but once a month! I miss our rain and if mites hate being wet then they should all be moving out of our yard and going where it's dry, right?? Everything around us is yellow and our yard is the only green one for blocks. I'll head for the local feed place and see what they have cheap for the neighbors' trees. Thanks!!

My next door neighbor was telling me today that he has a bad mite problem and can't get rid of them on his rose of sharon tree. He says he has been treating all his plants all year with Bayer all in one. I asked him if he had been changing up and alternating and he said no just the same one since spring. I told him he had to change up or they would get immune. Why couldn't he have told me this before I just bought a bottle. Now it isn't going to do me a bit of good if I am getting resistant mites from his yard. Crap. My roses are doomed, lol. I may end up having to get some avid or forbid myself though I haven't seen anything that looks like broadmites since winter except for maybe the seedlings I was growing and they both look like that right the beginning with the crinkled deformed leaves. The other cross right beside them looks normal though. I have just been treating them with hot soapy water.

I don't know karma....We have been having tons of rain here the past month and it has been really humid.
I now have the worst spider mites I have ever had. I thought they hated humidity but these don't! I stripped leaves, sprayed with avid, neem, and ortho systemic, hot water and a few plants still have them or re-aquire them.

Our neighbors have scale on thier palms and they transfer to ours so I have a feeling that is where the mites are coming from as well. There is also an angel trumpet next door on the other side of us that is close to 15ft tall so that might be the mite problem.
The neighbors with the scaly palms have a huge palm right on the fenceline with especially horrible scale-they were covering some fronds completely. I sprayed it with coffee grounds 'tea' (basically coffee)because there is new evidence that this will cure scale on sagos. It seems like it is working even though this is not a sago. I can't believe how much better that palm looks. I even dug a little hole under the fence and put coffee grounds under there lol.

I don't know what can be done about neighbor's infested plants! I sure feel for ya. It is a pain.

For the past couple days I have been shooting the evergreens with tons of water!! I found only one web this am and sent DH to find cheap mite killer!

Thick leaf plants can take the oil in the summer. One reason I spray at night is it is cooler and there is less plant stress. He knows I spray his stuff. His plants doubled in size in one year and now flower.

I keep a professional hose end sprayer filled with oil and vary the ratio with the results I want. At $ 9.99 a quart it is the cheapest, most effective stuff I have used. In the winter they get it 4+ oz per gallon and I spray my stuff also at about 2+ oz.

I have been after mites for so long that I can just look out and see a leaf slightly discolored and almost tell 100% for sure if it is a mite problem. Mites are my only true problem here.

Jeep, he got the ortho max stuff and this am I sprayed as far as the sprayer would go. They are just covered with webbing. I have been shooting water into the nut tree and to my surprise the leaves are growing back and we are seeing less webbing. I'm learning to leave junk plant stuff over on the lot line like naked ladies or grasses.
The south neighbor's yard is all yellow and I have hollyhocks that are only flowers over there and the postal lady was noting the difference in the ones by the box compare to the flowering black ones with no leaves. All I can do is spray!!