Overwinter garden pests can stress and kill your plants.
Learn how to protect your garden from beetles, mites, and worms with these tips.
Overwinter pests can also strike indoors.
But the arch enemy of the season for indoor plants is the spider mite.
Your plants can pick up spider mites from being outdoors, or even from being near an open window.
They thrive in hot, dry environmentslike inside a house thats got the heat cranked up.
horticulture consultant and professor of plant biology and pathology at the New York Botanical Garden
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Basically, if anything seems amiss with a leaf, it probably is, he adds.
Mite damage looks like someone took a needle and poked grey/white, sometimes translucent dots on the plant.
Thrips make CD-scratch patterns, black dots, and other messes all over the leaves.
He recommends that you quarantine any plants you bring insidewhether theyre from the plant store or your outdoor garden.
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