OmniScriptum Spider Mite: Trombidiformes Livre de poche

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Spider mites are members of the Acari (mite) family Tetranychidae, which includes about 1,200 species. They generally live on the under sides of leaves of plants, where they may spin protective silk webs, and they can cause damage by puncturing the plant cells to feed. Spider mites are known to feed on several hundred species of plant.Spider mites are less than 1 millimetre (0.04 in) in size and vary in colour. They lay small, spherical, initially transparent eggs and many species spin silk webbing to help protect the colony from predators; they get the 'spider' part of their common name from this webbing.