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Key to the Most Common Mites Found on Flowers and Foliage Plants
2. Mites
feeding on foliage and causing tiny chlorotic
spots, mites sometimes
accompanied by fine silk webbing.....Twospotted spider
mite
2a. Mites feeding primarily in the bulbs of
Easter lilies.....Bulb
mites
3. Egg oval, about 0.08 mm long, covered with
minute white bumps (Fig.110);
female translucent brown and about 0.2 mm long,
shaped like a fat football.....Broad mite
3a. Egg oval, about 0.1 mm long, without minute
bumps; female translucent
brown, about 0.3 mm long, shaped like a skinny
football.....Cyclamen
mite
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