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Keywords:broad mite Polyphagotarsonemus latus, often associated with the cyclamen mite and causing similar injury in greenhouses and gardens, it feeds on the exposed undersurfaces of leaves, completing

its life cycle in 7-8 days, the injury is a blistered and glassy or slivery appearance to the leaf, which may become rather brittle and sometimes a puckering downward, it attacks many ornamentals and fruit trees