Blights and Tea Pests, 45 
worst blights are :— 
Red Spider. 
Green Fly. 
Mosquito, 
Thoso three blights seem to attack the toa 
in turns. Red Spider comes on in the hot dry 
days ‘of May, but dies off directly heavy rain 
falls, and is succeeded by Green Fly which 
flourishes in very rainy and cold misty weather. 
Mosquito then comes and lasts until end of the 
season and it is no unusual thing to hear of a 
garden suffering from all three blights in turn, 
when (ofcourse) the crop is very small. The 
cause of these blights has been argued out many 
times, but no satisfactory conclusion has been 
come to. Years ago, Red Spider was shown as 
a curiosity at a meeting of planters in Darjeeling 
and there was quite an argument as to whether 
it attacked young seedlings or not. Nowadays, 
it attacks every sort of tea and is common on 
secd-beds. Some gardens look perfectly red from 
the distance, and suffer very severely for about 
6 weeks, others are only attacked on small patchs 
