Cicada season may be over, but another pest emerges right after. Here's how to prevent possible bites and rashes from oak ...

The oak gall mite is tiny and hardly visible to the naked eye, Gibb said. The mite measures in at approximately 100th of an inch or equivalent to the size of the point of a needle or the width of ...

Oak leaf gall mites (Pyemotes herfsi) are a species of itch mites that first appeared in 2004 in several Midwestern states. The oak leaf gall mite is a tiny, 0.2 mm (1/125 inches) ...

Fuchsia gall mite (Aculops fuchsiae) was accidentally introduced from South America in the 1980s. They are microscopic worm-like mites and occur in growing tips year-round and in flowers during ...

The Scotch broom gall mite has been studied in controlled greenhouses for the past 20 years, Oneto said. However, U.S. researchers had not given the OK for it to be used as a biological control.

Q: I have two types of fuchsia in my yard, one with a purple flower and pinkish-white skirt, and another with a white flower and red multiple skirt. The latter plant has had gall mites for many ...

Q: A salesperson at Flowercraft Garden Center in San Francisco recommended that I ask you about approaches for treating fuchsia mites. My old plants have developed curly leaves but still flower ...

The bites are horrible. They have been itching 24 hours a day for a couple of weeks, and nothing seems to help. A: While there are several species of microscopic mites, the oak leaf gall mite has ...

This is caused by aloe mites — also known as aloe wart mite or aloe gall mite (Aceria aloinis) — that can cause severe damage to some aloes (including this specimen Aloe Twilight Zone cultivar).

Biting mites. “We don’t have positive identification on the type of mite that it is. We do know that it is a mite,” said Kitty Loewy, spokeswoman for the Cook County Department of Public Health.

Alias: Maple bladder gall mite. This insect is very rarely seen, but its effects are common among maple trees. It is a small mite that feeds on the underside of maple leaves, and develops a bright ...

One type, the oak leaf gall mite, was most recently responsible for a 2004 outbreak in Missouri, Nebraska, ... “Mites usually need about four hours on your body before they bite.