Hello all,
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about overwintering adult mites that were found under apple bark and on apple fruit in November. See original message below. Peter Shearer from Rutgers and several others agreed that it sounded like two-spotted spider mites. I also mentioned that I would take some photos. Here's a link to my mite photos http://www.hort.uconn.edu/ipm/fruit/htms/apmgpic2spot.htm Any chance it can be yellow mites, Eutetranychus borealis carpini? Note that most of these mites are still very much alive and started moving around from the heat of the microscope lamps! Original message: A Connecticut grower brought me an apple and a piece of apple bark that appear to have overwintering (orange form) two-spotted spider mites. The clusters of orange mites are in the calyx end of the Melrose apple and on the underside of the piece of bark (also from a Melrose tree) taken from the trunk approx. 5-6 feet above the ground. The samples were taken on 11/17/06. I am assuming these are twospotted spider mites, Tetranychus urticae, but also wondered if there are other mites to consider. Also, is the McDaniel mite (T. mcdanieli) only found on the west coast of North America? Thanks, Lorraine Lorraine Los Fruit Crops IPM Coordinator Plant Science Department, U-4067 University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269-4067 (860)486-6449 (Phone) (860)486-0682 (Fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
