I have lost a lot of plants over the last few year to what I blamed on my own incompetence as a grower. I always thought that I made some watering mistake that stopped a plant from growing, or the fertilizer was not right, or the temperature was too cold; there was always something. There were so many plants that I put into a list that I called Plants That I Could Grow Well At One Time, But Cannot Grow Any Longer To Save My Life. I now believe that most of my issues were because of this invisible menace – the flat mite.