Imouzzer Kandar apple trees ravaged by red spiders

After having experienced, three years ago, the tragedy of fungal diseases, especially apple scab, a fungus that attacks the foliage of trees as well as the fruit where one observes the formation of corky scabs on the skin, the optimal temperature for proliferation as well as the dry climate of this season have intensified the reproduction of large masses of red spiders, parasites smaller than a millimetre, difficult to see with the naked eye, infesting the apple orchards in Imouzzer Kandar, and leaving behind enormous damage. This pest of the mite family hibernates in the form of eggs deposited on tree bark and at the base of buds; in August, they form red patches which, towards the month of April when the temperature really starts to climb, hatch to give future colonies of spiders, depending on weather conditions. At the adult stage, a single female can lay up to 100 eggs during her sh…