Bugs eating roots? Need help identifying/solutions

[mkweed]

Hello,
First time growing and indoors and the 2 plants have been growing strong and healthy.
This morning i watered them and saw nothing of concern, Towards their bed time checked them out and noticed a few bugs crawling around and found a ton more in one of my root riots (i think some called them rapid rooters). I have the little plastic soil holders for seedlings i have them in.
I took the plants out and killed as and removed as many as bugs as I could. Did it for about an hour, and have been checking on them.
Mind you this is after their bed time but they're in the seedling stage still and I figured killing these bugs was more important right now.
After cleaning the one plant that was infested, I cleaned the other, which had essentially one or two, probably colony seeker or something.
After cleaning them as much as I did, I removed the table in the grow room, put the plants in separate seedling plastic bed things, then I put a new table and I kept them away on small little boxes. I also put down double sided tape but i don't know if that'll do anything.

I also noticed there might be two separate types of bugs but I have no clue.

TLDR: I have bug infestation, help! need to know which bug and what to do.
pics:

 

[tslonige]

Ant?

 

[mkweed]

Ant?

They dont look or seem like ants, Very small, and they had a yellow hue, The first one definitely looks like a mite to me.

 

[tslonige]

Those are ants, 3 body parts, head, thorax, abdomen. There is also a yellow ant.

 

[PadawanWarrior]

They dont look or seem like ants, Very small, and they had a yellow hue, The first one definitely looks like a mite to me.

Ants can be small too. That doesn't look like a mite at all to me in that first pic like you're saying.

 

[mkweed]

Those are ants, 3 body parts, head, thorax, abdomen. There is also a yellow ant.

Interesting so what are they doing hanging and crawling on the roots. Should I be concerned about them doing damage to the plants?
Thanks for replying

 

[Dr. Who]

No but, be sure they are not bringing in aphids to farm.

 

[Cx2H]

Ants are the slave master of aphids. Unless these are pharaoh ants, those are a bee-atch to get rid of. They look just like that.

 

[mkweed]

Ok I found a few more and killed them. I could of swore some of the other insects looked different. My thing is if theyre here making a colon, there has to be a food source. Why else would there be so many and them laying eggs. They have to be feeding off something.
Should I try to remove the plant from the root riot?

 

[Cx2H]

Ok I found a few more and killed them. I could of swore some of the other insects looked different. My thing is if theyre here making a colon, there has to be a food source. Why else would there be so many and them laying eggs. They have to be feeding off something.
Should I try to remove the plant from the root riot?

Gotta kill the queen. Ant traps could help.

 

[tslonige]

Ok I found a few more and killed them. I could of swore some of the other insects looked different. My thing is if theyre here making a colon, there has to be a food source. Why else would there be so many and them laying eggs. They have to be feeding off something.
Should I try to remove the plant from the root riot?

I would put an ant bait on top the soil so they take it back to the queen.

 

[Merlin1147]

Careful with ant traps and bait Around soil and plants. Most use boron as an active ingredient so be careful you don’t end up with B toxicity.

 

[mkweed]

I havent seen any ants since then. I think were all good.