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+---
+issue: 14
+
+author: Daniele Salvagni
+title: 'Dealing with spider mites on herb plants'
+pubDate: 'Jul 05, 2024'
+emoji: 🌱
+
+description: >
+  Dealing with spider mites causing white spots damage on herb plants leaves.
+---
+
+Recently, I started noticing some white spots on my mint and basil plants and
+thought, _"Oh great, what now?"_. At first, I couldn't identify any possible
+source and suspected a fungal cause, as the spots were spreading between plants.
+However, after some research, something didn't add up.
+
+![Basil and Mint leaves](/img/blog/spider-mites/basil-mint.jpg)
+
+I also found some posts on Reddit showing the same symptoms, but not many useful
+comments. I took a closer look, flipped some leaves... nothing. But then on the
+next leaf I saw them: a group of tiny terrorists hiding in plain sight. Some of
+them even had the audacity to weave small webs as if to say, _“This is our
+territory now.”_
+
+> **Spider mites** are very small pests that love to suck the life out of your
+> plants. Literally. They feed on the plant’s sap, leaving behind destruction.
+
+As we don't negotiate with terrorists, this is what I have been trying:
+
+1. Blended a bunch of garlic and rosemary, let it sit for some hours, and
+   strained it into a spray bottle with water and a small amount of soap.
+2. Blasted the plants with water, aiming to clean the underside of the leaves.
+3. Sprayed the homemade mix on the plants every couple of days.
+
+The garlic is a known repellent (rosemary oil also helps a little), while the
+soap tends to kill the pests.
+
+New leaves aren't being attacked anymore, which is good news. I will keep
+monitoring and hope this is enough.

src/content/blog/hosting-comments-on-github-for-static-websites.md

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 [response.json](https://gist.github.com/daniele-salvagni/63275d66bce137d57a5c6c495dd5f877)
 as you can see, the comment is already rendered to HTML!
 
-# Adding an issue ID to our posts
+## Adding an issue ID to our posts
 
 I'm using [Metalsmith](https://github.com/segmentio/metalsmith) to generate this
 website _(edit: It's 2022, I'm now using Astro and this is all still valid)_ but
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ data[i].user.html_url: "The GitHub profile URL of the comment author"
 You can resize the avatar by appending `&s=[size]` to the URL (replace `[size]`
 to a number of pixels like `100`).
 
-# Rendering the HTML with Vue
+## Rendering the HTML with Vue
 
 I'm rendering the comments with [Vue.JS](https://vuejs.org/) (you don't need
 to!) mainly because I was already familiar with Angular and I wanted to finally