Looks like a juniper, probably juniper procumbens nana, since that is a commonly used plant for beginner bonsai. It is an outdoor plant, kept indoors or too dry outside, it's a favorite of spider mites. As in seeing the tittle of your post, told me what the plant and pest most likely common. Rather than type out the whole how to fix spider mites I'm going to give you a link to a fuchsia page I happen to have open right now. Mites are mites, LOL, doesn't matter which plant, plus fuchsias are more delicate than junipers, so any thing that wont' hurt them, will definitely not hurt your juniper. The trick is going to be finding a place outdoors where you can give it enough sunlight, and mange to keep it watered but not over watered , especially in the summer heat, when that is easily twice a day. I've been to large bonsai conventions in the summer. Late afternoon everybody leaves to go home and water, then comes back for the rest of the days seminars. ;) Good luck with your little plant. Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.nwfuchsiasociety.com/pests.htm This post was edited by plaidbird on Sat, Apr 6, 13 at 17:03

Let me put in another bad word about all-in-one type pesticides (combined fungicide, insecticide, miticide, whatever) such as Orthenex. The acephate insecticide in Orthenex not only kills mite predators but it and several other insecticides are known to stimulate mite reproduction. To counteract this, several rose insecticides are routinely formulated with a miticide. Now, if the you then use such a product to control mites, you not only have to spray a more toxic mixture because of the insecticide, but you probably have to spray a more concentrated version of the miticide because its efficiency is decreased by the insecticide. I'm not saying that spraying any single pesticide is a good thing, I'm saying that spraying a combined pesticide is probably a worse thing.

Hi Toad, Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you! I've been really busy! I just sent you an email, and Im gonna reply here to so others can see the pics and join in with their analysis of what the problem(s) is/are! I got your pictures, and I think you have different things going on there. The first pics are tomatoes, aren't they? That looks like real spider web to me, and unless those are the only "curled up" leaves, the webs might not have anything to do with the problem. If the whole plant is looking kind of curly and sick, you could have one of the tomato maladies! If the whole plant looks bad, post a picture on RMG in a new thread asking about tomatoes! Igratefullydon't really know what's what with all those diseases! If it's only those couple leaves that look curly, cut them off and clean up all the webs, and you should be fine! The morning glory looks like either earwigs or grasshoppers to me. Normally I'd say most likely earwigs, but I've had way more than the usual number of grasshoppers this year, and the damage they each do looks the same. And just ONE grasshopper can eat a LOT in just a couple hours! Look under rocks or boards or in any cracks or crevasses for earwigs, or saturate a thick (fairly big) piece of newspaper and lay it at the base of the plants in the evening, and then go out first thing in the morning and pick it up to see what you can see! If it's earwigs, I use Ortho (Bug B Gon) Max Insect Killer (bifenthrin). It's a granular made mostly to spread on lawns to kill insects that are doing damage. I sprinkle a little bit wherever I'm having a problem, and then you water it in. I've had a lot of earwigs get in the house this year (my family room is "garden level!"), and I sprinkled some in the mulch around the perennials next to the foundation on the north side a month ago, and it's helped a lot. If its grasshoppers, you just need to kind of watch for them! I keep a can of ant & roach spray handy, and just directly spray any I find---and it kills them VERY quickly! Grasshoppers survive winter and get bigger every year, so if you find any, you really should get rid of them while they're still "reasonably" small! The bigger they get, the harder they are to kill---and, the more they EATand the more they procreate!!! One other possibility on the morning glories---but don't think this is what it is---would be slugs. I don't see any "slime trails" in your pics, but if you can ever see any "shiny lines" on the leaves, then it's slugs! Slug bait is the only way I know of to get rid of slugs! (I don't know of any "effective" way to get rid of any of those things without using some insecticides! You could manually catch the grasshoppers and then "dispose" of themat Paulinos we used to catch them and FLING them into the pond and watch the koi chow down!but grasshoppers can be HARD to catch! And the honeysuckle bush just looks like a very old spider web that debris has blown into to me! Put on a pair of gloves and pull the debris apart to see if you see any caterpillars or anything inside, and if you don't, just clean up the mess and the webs and cut off any branches or foliage that looks bad. I'm not really seeing any insect damage at all on the plant itself. [Cleaning up your spider webs won't hurt the spiders! They'll just move somewhere else! And the honeysuckle webs look LONG deserted to me anyway! So does the "tomato web."] Does anybody else have any other helpful advice? Skybird

I had the same problem with spider webs. I bought an old home in the midwest, too. I did everything I could possibly think of to get rid of the spiders. I ended up calling an exterminator ( mainly because they were also in the basement, too). The spiders were also coming into my home (right around the door!). That was about 5 months ago... so far I haven't seen more webs or spiders. I'm not suggesting you call an exterminator--- it was costly & I probably could have sprayed myself had I known what to buy. Nevertheless, it's an option if nothing else works. I also bought bug lights.