Actually, a mite can move across my hand in about a minute... But yea, this sounds like a bunch of baby red spiders[b said:Quote[/b] (Tony Paroubek @ May 14 2004,8:27)]If you can see them walking around all over your porch they are not red spider mites.
Move fast?? snails move faster.. They are so small it would take them days to go a few feet. You really need a 10x magnifying glass to see them clearly.
Sounds like you have a bunch of red colored baby spiders running around to me...
Thats the thing... I have lots of them spider web like things, only they're from spiders! I'm squishin them every day![b said:Quote[/b] (Tamlin Dawnstar @ May 14 2004,9:14)]Spinder mites are really very tine, you can barely see them, they are smaller than .
They are rarely seen other than on the plants, and even then the indicator is usually a tent like and very fine webbing over the top of the plants.
Take a moist q tip and swab the underside of your plants leaves. If there are dark little specs (hee hee) on it then you have a potential problem.