Good advice on spraying for spider mites. ‘Way back in the day when I lived in an apartment, my roomies and I washed an affected plant in the sink with a weak solution of dish detergent in tepid water, patted it dry; then sprayed paper towels liberally with the pesticide labeled for spider mites and mealy bugs, piled the towels loosely around the branches, and covered the plant in a twist-tied dry-cleaning bag for the night. This way we could control the spray from blasting outward. The fumes from the towels and the no-escape bagging did the trick.
I had to use this method recently when no-see-em bugs came in throught the screendoor and one of them gave birth inside my laptop—they were crawling out through the keys: I sprayed a paper towel with Raid, and placed the open laptop with the paper towel across the keyboard into a garbage bag, twist-tied. Did the trick overnight. Hate to think what the inside beneath the keyboard looks like now. I don’t have one of those tiny screwdrivers to open it up.
OMG! You should ‘sell’ that ‘Laptop Incubator’ idea to Science! ;)