Web identification please

lockin · #1 (**permalink**) 07-10-2007, 04:42 PM

Hello

Could anyone please tell me what made this web. I do have a pic but cant upload for some reason.
Its like a blanket on a bush its has long sort of droplet shape hanging things full of orangey eggs.
Found in Dorset yesterday.

I could email it would help anyone who could know.

Thanks

badger426 · #2 (**permalink**) 07-10-2007, 04:53 PM

Have a look at the video on this site explaining how to upload. also see PMG's postings on "Problems Uploading Imaging".
Cheers,
badger426.

badger426 · #3 (**permalink**) 07-10-2007, 04:56 PM

Sorry, I meant to add that your photos must be at least 800x600.

lockin · #4 (**permalink**) 07-10-2007, 08:39 PM

Thanks for your reply and here it is.

Deer Stalker · #5 (**permalink**) 07-10-2007, 08:42 PM

Hi Lockin.

Your web is made by a type of Mite.

Miteman · #6 (**permalink**) 09-10-2007, 11:13 AM

This webbing has been formed by the gorse spider mite, Tetranychus lintearius Dufour (Prostigmata:Tetranychidae). This species was described in France in 1832, but has since been recorded in the UK, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Algeria.

Because it feeds almost exclusively on gorse (Known hosts: Ulex europaeus, Ulex nanus, Ulex parviflorus and Calicotome villosa) it has also been deliberately introduced into Hawaii and New Zealand as a biocontrol agent for previously introduced Ulex spp. that have become serious weed pests.