Can Spider Mites Live Without Plants. For the most part soil mites do not harm plants and stay within the soil of your pots. You will not get Spider Mites if you have no plants and you will not get them even if you have plants but they are constantly kept in a healthy condition.
Spinosad products could be used instantly to kill spider mites on weed and can also be used when watering plants to indiscriminately kill spider mites through the roots. But living mites would need fresh plants to survive. Spider mitesdont livein the soil.
Despite their short life cycle they reproduce rapidly.
They can live undetected on the bottoms of your plant leaves invisible to the naked eye. Spider mites while not harmful to humans but potentially lethal to plant life live for about three to four weeks. At just 5 days old females start laying eggs depositing a few hundred of them during her lifetime. Spider mites like other pests can harbor disease.