These pests are small and red in colour and are found in large quantities on the tender parts of the crop like leaves, flower buds and twigs.

Webs are visible on the plant on which the mites attack. These insects attack soft parts of the plant by sucking the juice that eventually the plant dies.

The following products are used to control mites in chilli crops.

Spraying Omite (propargite  57% EC) @ 400 ml/acre or Oberon (spiromesifen 22.9% SC) @ 200 ml/acre or Abacin (abamectin 1.8% EC) @ 150 ml/acre.

Use kalichakra (metarhizium anispoli) @ 1 kg/acre as a biological treatment.

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