Spiders taking over!

Thankfully not spider mites, at least I haven't seen any but there are a lot of spiders where I'm at and they are leaving webs everywhere. I'll clean up and a few days later they make this mess. I've mad webs on a few of my buds.

Thankfully harvest is about week away. Gonna have to bomb this place when I'm done.

Bleach it hard after the grow poison is sketchy. For now just hand to hand spider combat iv had big outdoor plants covered by those fuckers it's not to bad of a problem to have.

Spiders are great to have around -- they eat insects. Their presence implies that you do have insects around.

somebody1701 said:

Spiders are great to have around -- they eat insects. Their presence implies that you do have insects around.

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I live near a lake, everyone around here has tons of spiders especially cellar spiders. I have pulled a few dead fungus nats off some buds and even a house few house flies. Maybe the spiders are helping keep those in control.

BullShark said:

Thankfully not spider mites, at least I haven't seen any but there are a lot of spiders where I'm at and they are leaving webs everywhere. I'll clean up and a few days later they make this mess. I've mad webs on a few of my buds.

Thankfully harvest is about week away. Gonna have to bomb this place when I'm done.

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Id be VERY careful that you infact have spiders and not spider mites. The webs are very similar, and mites are often too small to see with naked eye, chances are if you have a lot of spiders you also have a pest that the spiders are eating. Spider mites will not be seen unless you have a bad infestation or you know what you are looking for. Spiders will rarely leave webs under leafs or on top of buds, it will generally be a web between two points to catch prey. Spider mites on the other hand will make webs EVERYWHERE as protection especially on the underside of leaves. If you have extensive webbing you will likely have white or yellow spotting on your leaves, this is a spider mites infestation, if it is merely webs i wouldn't worry, spider are predators and their webs are easily cleaned from buds.

purplehays1 said:

Id be VERY careful that you infact have spiders and not spider mites. The webs are very similar, and mites are often too small to see with naked eye, chances are if you have a lot of spiders you also have a pest that the spiders are eating. Spider mites will not be seen unless you have a bad infestation or you know what you are looking for. Spiders will rarely leave webs under leafs or on top of buds, it will generally be a web between two points to catch prey. Spider mites on the other hand will make webs EVERYWHERE as protection especially on the underside of leaves. If you have extensive webbing you will likely have white or yellow spotting on your leaves, this is a spider mites infestation, if it is merely webs i wouldn't worry, spider are predators and their webs are easily cleaned from buds.

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lol. spiders and spider mites and their webs are only similar in that they are webs. it takes months for mites to make a canopy web which looks like a cobweb, not a fresh spider web.

it IS spider season, and the dog days of summer (wear boots, the snakes are out breeding, eating, shedding, getting ready for hibernation), spiders are coming out of the woodwork by the millions. it'll be over in a couple of months...

cat of curiosity said:

lol. spiders and spider mites and their webs are only similar in that they are webs. it takes months for mites to make a canopy web which looks like a cobweb, not a fresh spider web.

it IS spider season, and the dog days of summer (wear boots, the snakes are out breeding, eating, shedding, getting ready for hibernation), spiders are coming out of the woodwork by the millions. it'll be over in a couple of months...

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Ya thats why i said if its mites he'd likely have leaf damage by the time he saw considerable webbing. But the webs are easily mistaken by people that haven't seen mite webs before.

look out for chiggers!!! the lakes are notorious chigger paradises

purplehays1 said:

Id be VERY careful that you infact have spiders and not spider mites. The webs are very similar, and mites are often too small to see with naked eye, chances are if you have a lot of spiders you also have a pest that the spiders are eating. Spider mites will not be seen unless you have a bad infestation or you know what you are looking for. Spiders will rarely leave webs under leafs or on top of buds, it will generally be a web between two points to catch prey. Spider mites on the other hand will make webs EVERYWHERE as protection especially on the underside of leaves. If you have extensive webbing you will likely have white or yellow spotting on your leaves, this is a spider mites infestation, if it is merely webs i wouldn't worry, spider are predators and their webs are easily cleaned from buds.

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I've been keeping a close eye on my buds and haven't seen any spider mites. Not sure I don't have them though as I've had some leaves that were spotted due to some type of pest. That happened over a month ago and I haven't seen any more damage, however I've come to check when the lights come on and see small bits of webbing stretching from branch o branch sometimes. Never very much. I've had a few pieces of webbing I thought were mold at one point but I've since ruled that out. I've seen a few different species of spiders around the grow area and other areas of the property. We even get them in our car around here! Thankfully harvest is a week or 2 away as the leaves are getting some purple and the pistils are shriveling up and the trichomes are starting to get cloudy. It hasn't gotten much worse over the past month.