Hmm. I was walking in our backyard gardens yesterday and noticed that some of my Texas skeleton plants looked sickly. I squatted down for a closer look. What I saw was akin to spider webbing with LOTS of tiny red creepy-crawlies skittering about. Spider mites, likely in the family of Tetranychidae. I should probably do them in. But I'm usually in the mindset of letting nature be nature. Oh, I took a short video of them, too (below).
Despite their common name, spider mites are NOT spiders. But they are arachnids because they have eight legs.
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