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Originally Posted by Kate Morgan
While I am here can I
pick some brains, a neighbour had a good sized load off our muck heap some
years ago, she has only just told me that the muck was infested with red
spider/red mite - are they the same thing - and they ruined her vegetables
because they ate all her potatoes ?
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That sounds very bizarre.
Red spider, which is really red spider mite, is, as I'm sure you know, a minute sap sucking creature which is a particular nuisance in greenhouses. It like hot dry environments, and I can't imaging it being carried in muck, nor could it "eat potatoes".
So presumably she's talking about some other pest? Googling "red mite" shows them to be a pest of chickens, but they don't eat potatoes either.
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