These are a real sweetie. Last summer (my first of real gardening) I had most of my
plants in pots still waiting for the new garden to be prepared. Horror of horrors I found a few of them covered in very fine webs with lots of little .... well red spider mites running round them sucking out my precious
plants' natural precious planty type fluids. Although I had no idea how to deal with them (and nor did my local nursery) I got a commercial bug killer and sprayed them in the open air. Now my
greenhouse is not going up until this summer so I had to bring some of my tender young babies into the house to over-winter. They are due to go back out in about 6-8 weeks BUT this morning, on my aloe vera, fine webs and tiny red spiders. And that is even though they have been in the house since early November. I assume that the larvae have been in the compost since then and are just breaking free. Anyone got any method of dealing with these tiny terrors? I lost 4
plants to them last year.