Bugs eating roots? Need help identifying/solutions

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.
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Ant?

tslonige said:

Ant?

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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.

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

mkweed said:

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.

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

tslonige said:

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

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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

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

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.

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?

mkweed said:

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?

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Gotta kill the queen. Ant traps could help.

mkweed said:

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?

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

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.

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