"Miss Perspicacia Tick" wrote in message
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wrote:
Actually they are not pests, the red spider mite isn't red at all but
the little red spiders are just common garden insects.


Even the six-yea- old next door knows that spiders are arachnids! ;o)



The six year old next door to me is a labrador, and he calls all creepy
crawlies arthropods (usually shortened to Arrf! Arff!) ...