<\/span><\/h4>\nHelping against: Spider mites<\/p>\n
Phytoseiulus persimilis<\/em> are orange-colored mites up to one millimeter in size. They feed only on spider mites. They also need high humidity and at least 20\u00b0C. Predatory mites can be purchased in a substrate that is sprinkled on the infested plants.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost everyone in the terrarium will sooner or later become acquainted with them: Small pests on plants that let their hosts die slowly and leave unsightly, greasy traces or webs in the terrarium. Many of them can be controlled well without harming chameleons. This page is intended to give an overview of the plant pests frequently found in terrariums and some tips on how to get rid of them. Plant pests Scale insects Scale insects are sticky little pests on certain plants with shield-shaped bodies (hence the name), under which the females lay countless eggs. Scale insects grow up to half a millimeter in size and feed on plant sap, causing the infested plant to die slowly. The sticky honeydew (only lidded scale insects do not produce any!) and the large females themselves are the signs that are usually the first to be noticed on the plants in the terrarium. Many scale insects are covered with a waxy secretion, which makes them difficult to control and allows them to survive even at very low temperatures. The most common species is the citrus aphid, so named because of the white, greasy, soft secretion it wraps itself in. Aphids are also known…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1782,1773,1749,1755,543,1780,1779,1777,1774,1778,1758,1771,1766,1767,1781,1752,1775,1768,1769,1784,1750,1772,461,1764,1765,1748,1786,1785,1747,1751,1783,1763,1762,1759,1776,1760,1756,1757,1770,1754,1753,1761],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8132"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9386,"href":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132\/revisions\/9386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}