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Hi! First time bonsai owner here. I took over care of my mum's tiny ficus ginseng (or at least that's what she told me it was). The little dude was kind of asleep, not wilting but also not growing.
Then new leaves started appearing, which was great. But now I'm concerned. I saw some web-like stuff between a couple of leaves. There was so little of it that I had no way of knowing if it was just dust. Remembered reading about spider mites, started turning over leaves and there are tiny white... sprinkles? ...on the underside of the leaves. Some of the new leaves have brown spots, some of the older ones have curled in a bit and have a hard edge.
Any ideas?

Looks like spider mites alright.

Ah damn it, I was afraid of that. Son of a... Ok, off to do more research on how to get rid of them.
Thank you for confirming.

Increase humidity and air circulation. IF spider mite (Hard to tell for my bad eyes) use a spray that specifically mentiones these, as spider mites are not insects (but spiders)

leatherback wrote: Increase humidity and air circulation. IF spider mite (Hard to tell for my bad eyes) use a spray that specifically mentiones these, as spider mites are not insects (but spiders)

Related to spiders, but not spiders.

Auk wrote:

leatherback wrote: Increase humidity and air circulation. IF spider mite (Hard to tell for my bad eyes) use a spray that specifically mentiones these, as spider mites are not insects (but spiders)

Related to spiders, but not spiders.

Yeah, you are right. As I was writing it I was thinking about that, wondering whether the arachnida translates to spiders-likes; SPinachtigen in Dutch.