I'm really no expert.... He looks scary
lol yeah, but only 1mm in size
I'm not an expert either - just did some reading around (again) and realized my question was stupid, since there are thousands of different mites and look very similar
Tried to at least get an overview of the different mite types, but no idea what scientific classifications base their categories on (and they're not even sure about the ones they set up themselves lol)
The one on the pic definitely is some kind of soil mite (I had settled for it belonging roughly to the oribatids - I wasn't able to determine more specifically which exactly. Thing is there are also
predatory soil mites, so for a sec I thought maybe they could go after spider mites too (which would be kind of cool, right).
I'm thinking not though, I've never seen my soil mites climb onto my plants. Oh well.
So
@whitebb2727 did you get some, and if so, please do let us know how they do!