Cotton Insect-Pest (Mite): Red Spider Mite

Common Name: Red Spider Mite

Scientific Name: Tetranychus Cinnabarinus (Tetranychide Acarira)

Family: Tetranychidae

Crop: Cotton

Symptoms: 

• Puncture the leaf tissue and the oozing plant sap is sucked.
• Removal of plant sap with chlorophyll and other plant pigments results in the characterizing blocking with
  reddish bronze discoloration of leaves.
• Severe infestation leads to pre mature defoliation of leaves.

Occurance:

• They are generally found on the undersurface of leaves wire fine webbings. During heavy infestation they may be found all over the leaf surfaces.

Chemical control: 

• Use of synthetic pyreoid induces resurgence of red spider mite.
• Application of Dicofol or wethabel sulphur.