Hey guys, just a quick question, I was grabbing a little more soil from my Fox Farms ocean forest bag. And I noticed these tiny ass little bugs crawling around. I figured it could be fungus gnats but I’m not sure, maybe mites? (Think mites are microscopic )
They look like they could be early stage of fungus gnat.
I just poured boiling water with the soil in a bowl to kill anything in it.
Hard to tell , not a fungus gnat tho.
Looks tick like.
First pic looks a little like a spider of some kind.
i agree looks like a tick
I was thinking the same thing!
But also maybe a little spider?
This was just one of them, there was a few tiny little bugs in the soil that didn’t look like the couple pictures I posted, They actually were smaller than that.
But I couldn’t get a good picture since they’re really tiny and move quick.
Would Ticks be found in soil? So weird.
Hope the boiling water kills them all.
find ticks anywhere, cut it in half or burn it lol
After looking at @BudzMS pic I think it is a Tick.
Thats what i was thinking a tick
Best kind too. D e A d. Upper right looks like a dead larvae, usually translucent little maggots.
If it was spider mites, after you poured boiling water on them, and looked at them with a microscope, you’d see them doing the back stroke, with big smiles. Little party hats on maybe.
Spider mites aren’t phased by boiling water? Lol.
I figured boiling water kills off most things
Oh yes, definitely had those in my last bag of soil. That’s what stunted my last round of autoflowers.
Seedlings just started getting sicker and not long after, those little fuckers started flyin around.
Spider mites would thrive on satan’s nut sack. They’re tough, and tough to eradicate.
found a dam tick crawling on me last night
