Two-Spotted Spider Mite | Zenthanol IPM Series

On Mar 29, 2022

The Two-spotted SpiderMite (#Tetranychus #urticae) is known to feed on ~4,000 plant species across 140 plant families and is extremely adapted to plant defense mitigation like many #SpiderMites of family #Tetranychidae.

We will be going over their biology like adaptation to Cannabis and historical chemistries, attractive and repellant compounds, why yellow light limits their egg laying, detection, #biocontrols and other holistic IPM techniques, even their ability to catch air and fly!

Much of their small genome is packed with resistance genes, including a set that originally belonged to fungi and a set originally from bacteria, both of which the result of natural horizontal gene transfer; they even have more of these gene sets than those original sources typically do. Of course, this makes even the healthiest of plants a suitable host.

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