This is a really large image of baby spiders infesting my tomato plant

[DeeBye]

[Kevin]

I'm tempted to quote that just to break the poor server. :P

That's a little creepy.

[LochnarITB]

I think those are spider mites, not baby spiders. Google them. I think it is something you want to get rid of.

[Torenia]

As bad as that looks, it might be easier just to get a new tomato plant. The usual stuff I use against spider mites aren't things you want to put on a vegetable plant. (Horticulturalist here, btw)

It surprises me that they're so bad, though. Usually just being outside with wind and a good knockoff with a hose is enough to take care of them where I live. It's only indoors that they've been a problem for me, and then I use a systemic pesticide. But there's products out there for use on veggies to get rid of them.

-Tori

[kandrathe]

What a coincidence. I just escorted a huge wolf spider to a new home outside the house. It was 2.5" across, and I still have the heebee jeebees.

[DeeBye]

I'm 99% sure that they are just common garden spiders and not spider mites. They aren't damaging the plant in any way. They are just chilling out.

[LennyLen]

That image is really huge! You could have warned us.:P

[Occhidiangela]

I'm 99% sure that they are just common garden spiders and not spider mites. They aren't damaging the plant in any way. They are just chilling out.

Learn how to crop picture, eh?

[Torenia]

Perhaps it's just me, but I'd get rid of any type of pest setting up residence on a plant that had parts I was planning to eat.

[DeeBye]

Learn how to crop picture, eh?

I warned you it would be a large image!

Perhaps it's just me, but I'd get rid of any type of pest setting up residence on a plant that had parts I was planning to eat.

They are just baby spiders, not pests. Spiders are good. They eat the things that might want to eat my tomatoes:)

[Torenia]

Normally I'd have no objection to spiders. I'd welcome ladybugs and honeybees, too. But if my tomatoes are covered in webbing like the rest of this plant seems to be, you'd better believe I'm not eating them with that stuff on it.

[eppie]

I warned you it would be a large image!
They are just baby spiders, not pests. Spiders are good. They eat the things that might want to eat my tomatoes:)

Indeed they look like spiders to me as well, no mites. In a while they will move on anyway, and untill then they might eat some nasty tomato eating bugs.

[Sir_Die_alot]

In a while they will move on anyway, and untill then they might eat some nasty tomato eating bugs.

*and eachother.

[Nystul]

Normally I'd have no objection to spiders. I'd welcome ladybugs and honeybees, too. But if my tomatoes are covered in webbing like the rest of this plant seems to be, you'd better believe I'm not eating them with that stuff on it.

I've heard that some people wash off their garden veggies before eating them! :shuriken:



Not that I would ever willingly eat a fresh tomato in the first place. Spaghetti sauce for teh win.

Edit: That is a really large image!

[Occhidiangela]

I warned you it would be a large image!

That has bloody eff all to do with what I posted. I can read. Consider the size of the average PC screen, and learn how to crop a picture, will you?

Occhi

[DeeBye]

That has bloody eff all to do with what I posted. I can read. Consider the size of the average PC screen, and learn how to crop a picture, will you?

Occhi

I know how to crop a picture. I chose not to. I'm sorry if that upsets you.

[LennyLen]

Do they have 8 legs, or 6 (I couldn't really tell from the picture)? Spidermites only have 6 legs.

[Nystul]

Do they have 8 legs, or 6 (I couldn't really tell from the picture)? Spidermites only have 6 legs.

Ermmm... according to the internets, spider mites are actually 8-legged arachnids. Makes you wonder if a catfish is a fish or a cat.

(I guess the babies would have 6 legs, but the adults would be very tiny themselves.)

[weakwarrior]

Makes you wonder if a catfish is a fish or a cat.

"Is this chicken what I have, or is this fish? I know it’s tuna, but it says Chicken ... by the sea. Is that stupid?"

[kandrathe]

Ermmm... according to the internets, spider mites are actually 8-legged arachnids. Makes you wonder if a catfish is a fish or a cat.

(I guess the babies would have 6 legs, but the adults would be very tiny themselves.)

I counted eight on one of them. Leads me to believe they are spiders, not mites. I saw other photos of this type of spider infestation on tomatoes.