I was out working in my yard this past weekend and got quite concerned about my boxwoods. There are fairly large webs in the plant. I have heard about spider mites and the damage they can do, so I would like to catch this problem early. Any help would be greatly apprectiated. If you have large webs, they aren t caused by spider mites, but plain old garden spiders.
Spider mites are tiny insects that build up webbing around the stems and veins of the leaves.
They only produce webs with heavy infestations, and by then damage is usually visible. Garden spiders are good bugs for your garden, feeding on many other insect pests. Back to top I have enclosed a picture that shows the front of my house and the foundation plantings. We have English boxwoods, miniature boxwoods, a really thorny holly and nandinas against the house. The nandinas seem very unhealthy, and only one side has growth.