Harvesting w/ spider mites

So I have two 1lb plants under two different lights. I found a bit of spider mites on each plant. So on the left plant they are on about 5 out of 20 or so branches on the left. On the right plant they are on about 5 out of 20 or so branches on the right. Not sure how they got to seperate sides of the room, but anyway... So some of the 5 branches on each plant were pretty bad, like 2 branches each were pretty bad. The rest were not so bad and the entire rest of each plant had 0 spider mites or maybe one or two I couldn't find.

So my question is what would other people do in my situation. Im going to start harvesting tomorrow and never harvested with live spider mites before.

I took all the really bad leaves and entire branches off that were bad and put them all in the same container filled with water to suffocate them for now. Im planing on cutting the rest down tomorrow but not sure if there are any stragglers if they will reproduce and create new generations while im drying... so If I keep my plants hung upside down in the dark for 5 days and come back in the room a week later my entire drying room will be full of spider webs?

Just curious what anyone else would do as far as plan of attack on day of harvest... I dont want to spray anything, even water or air, because then that will spread them around my room alive... I don't want to dunk them in water... but I guess if anyone has any strong suggestions then I would try anything...

Or will the drying / curing process kill them off... or again, would they take over the curing jars if I got out of the drying process and put them in jars?

Thanks!

I could cut the majority of both plants that dont have any mites and dry normally... then put all remaining branches that have any trace of mites or eggs in the bucket submerged in water and wait till the clean branches are out of dry, then take all the other branches out of the water and dry them about a week later... but would leaving branches in water for a week straight damage or weaken the trichomes or potency?

Dude, don't worry and don't put anything in water. Spider mites only live on live plant material. Hang them up to dry and the mites will leave asap. webs stick around however