Tried to pin point exactly what these are online but I can’t figure it out. These are fresh seedlings, literally 3 days old. Humidity is around 75-80% and this is literally a bag of fresh Happy Frog, just poured out of the bag 2 days ago. Can anyone tell me what I’m looking at/whether or not I should be worried? Are they beneficial soil mites? Or a pest?
Thanks!
Howdy
Looks like spider mites.
If they are spider mites, they are the enemy.
picture is a bit blurry to me.
Any idea how they could already be here if I just poured the soil 2 days ago? How do they even get here? My other plant that is in flowering doesn’t seem to have them, just the seedlings. From my observation at least.
from the photos of spider mites I’m seeing online, they don’t really look like spider mites to me. I could definitely be wrong as I have no clue what they are. But everything I am reading about spider mites is saying that they aren’t visible to the naked eye, and that normally when you detect spider mites, it’s due to signs/symptoms of an infestation, not noticing the actual mites visually. Again, I don’t know what these are and I also do not have any personal experience with spider mites, so if you have had spider mites and they looked like this, then you are probably right. These are very small white bugs. Do you have experience with spider mites? And did they look like this?
Howdy
I agree , I have been looking and I am thinking they are soil mites.
Totally harmless from what I have read.
Or they could be root aphids,see picture.
Do these look the same as yours?
Holy shit bro that’s them. How tf do I have so many so fast?? They’re in all 3 new pots and it was a fresh bag of soil. What do I do??
Howdy
I have purchased soil before and it has come with “bonus” eggs.
Mine was fungus gnats and they destroyed my Gorilla Glue plants.
I know better know.
Best you get on top of this straight away.
Ladybugs would help.
Okay thank you man!
@Kingdom_Living
Howdy
Been trying to find solution and found this.
Put some yellow sticky traps around plant to get ones on surface.
It is recommended you treat your plants with neem oil or a pyrethrum-based spray
There not spider mites to big spider mites you can only see them underneath magnifying glass pretty sure root aphids captain jacks will take care of them but have to keep on top of them reapply weekly
Okay thank you man
Okay thanks bro
Aphids can also be combated by ladybugs if you want to go a more natural route
They can even be bought at Home Depot from what I understand. I’ve never needed this, so I personally can’t say how effective this actually is, but there’s that…
Perhaps an option for you
Edit: “ Ladybugs would help…”
I see now it was already suggested
I discovered what they are. “Hypoaspis Miles”. They are a predatory mite; beneficial. Apparently Fox Farms puts them in their soil to combat gnat fungus. You’d think they’d write that on the bag, but… no lol, they want to stress everyone out 
I discovered what they are. “Hypoaspis Miles”. They are a predatory mite; beneficial. Apparently Fox Farms puts them in their soil to combat gnat fungus. You’d think they’d write that on the bag, but… no lol
Turns out they are Hypoaspis Miles; a predatory mite that kills gnat fungus 
you’d think FF would write that on the bag lol
I’ve used ff of before and never have had that? Is this a new thing?
It doesn’t seem like it’s a new thing from what I’m finding from other people online. A lot of people were freaking out thinking their plants were infested but then discovered this. One guy deep cleaned his entire grow with bleach/3 different chemical agents and shut it down for 2 months, then started up again with Ocean Forest and found them back in the soil the next day they are SUPER tiny and really hard to see. The only reason I even noticed mine was because they were crawling on top of my black hygrometer. Had they just been in the soil I don’t think I would have even noticed to be honest.
@Kingdom_Living i use borax and sugar in half pint mansion jar mix it half - half with water make a paste cut small holes in lid so ants can go in they take borax to nest kills queen then they will leave i put them all over vegetable garden
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