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Do plant mites bite?

Do plant mites bite? These pests have piercing-sucking mouthparts to eat plants. Spider mites use their tiny mouths to pierce leaves. They don’t have fangs to bite humans. Symptoms and damage Spider mites have needle-like mouthparts and feed by piercing the leaves of host plants and sucking out the fluids from plant cells. Feeding causes

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