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Eggplant Leaves look odd

This is a Rosita and a Rosa Bianca, the plants look healthy but the leaves are very odd.
Any idea whats going on? Spider mites?

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Try looking closer at those black dots. If they can be discerned as two dots each then 2-spotted spidermites

— I think that ladybug larva would eat them unless it’s too big already. Find some babies or egg cluster To deploy junior patrol members to go after those little buggers.

— If you have seen some of those tiny yellow or light green Slug-like hoverfly maggots*, They are good for detail work like this, too.

* Syrphid flies | NC State Extension Publications



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