red spider

How to use red spider in a sentence

• Old walls in which the pointing is bad and the bricks full of nail holes, etc., are very difficult to keep free from red spider.

  Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XV., No. 388, June 9, 1883 | Various

• Jim nodded and glanced up at the red spider web that was dotted clear to the eighteenth floor with black dots of workmen.

  Still Jim | Honor Willsie Morrow

• If the red spider or the mealy bug attack them, they may be syringed with tobacco water.

  The Practical Garden-Book | C. E. Hunn

• To be frequently syringed, to keep down red spider, as they are more liable than other plants to be infested by them.

  In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year | William Keane

• Keep the early crops well supplied with water, and give them frequent sprinklings overhead, to prevent the attacks of red spider.

  In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year | William Keane