Suspected mite graveyard

So I can't tell for sure but I think this is a mite graveyard. I noticed the little shits after last weeks watering. They all ran to the rim of the pots. Hit the grow store the next day and the guy recommended 'quantum apocalypse'. I had used sns on a previous grow.

So I sprayed the plants with QA and hoped for the best. Instructions said to spray and follow up spray in 1 week. Took the plants out today for water and there were groups of whitish specs on the dish the pots sit in. It's hard to tell for sure since they don't move and my loupe isn't strong enough, but at each drain hole of the pot are mass mite graves. They also weren't running after the watering.

Quantum apoc is the real deal:


I'm assuming they are basic spider mites. Granted they weren't around long I have no webs, or spotting on leaves, no eggs or mite shit on leaves. Can they be a different type of mite? All white, no spots.

Here's to some dead mites!

They are not mites...news flash to the Google impared, mites don't live in the soil. The live,eat, breed and masturbate to pictures of failed grows entirely on the surface of your leaves.

Looks like gnat larvy to me, but then again, kind of looks like jizz.

they don't look like mites. were they all moving before you treated them? do gnats grow on the sides of plastic pots?

Not Spider Mites. Springtails maybe?

Either springtails or

FERMENTATION MITES aka MOULD MITES.

Hugo Phurst said:

Not Spider Mites. Springtails maybe?

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I think you are correct. I never heard of springtails until you mentioned them. I wiki them and it said they hop around when threatened and I think that's what mine were doing. the Wikipedia was very long winded. are they harmful? one section mentioned they could be beneficial. they were always dead in clusters below the holes of the flower pot

jondamon said:

Either springtails or

FERMENTATION MITES aka MOULD MITES.

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are the springtails harmful? what can you tell me about them in laymen's terms. thx in advance

ah so I searched them and @jondamon I see you have answered that question many times. they seem harmless and this whole time I was stressin that I had spider mites. explains why I never found webs, eggs, mite waste on the leaves
from wiki:
Springtails are well known as pests of some agricultural crops. Sminthurus viridis, the lucerne flea, has been shown to cause severe damage to agricultural crops,[48] and is considered as a pest in Australia.[49][50] Also Onychiuridae are known to feed on tubers and to damage them to some extent.[51] However, by their capacity to carry spores of mycorrhizal fungi and mycorrhiza-helper bacteria on their tegument, soil springtails play a positive role in the establishment of plant-fungal symbioses and thus are beneficial to agriculture.[52] They also contribute to controlling plant fungal diseases through their active consumption of mycelia and spores of damping-off and pathogenic fungi.[53][54] It has been suggested that they could be reared to be used for the control of pathogenic fungi in greenhouses and other indoor cultures.[55][56]

actually i have the SAME thing happening to me right NOW. ive been treating with sns 203 but these little white things are still moving around here and there under my pots on the saucers. your pic looks EXACTLY like my saucer bottoms. small slivers of dead white flecks.. with some still moving. jsut now i was able to find a couple white slivers still moving throughout the graveyard and 1 mature slightly colored bronze buggie. the white ones in your pictures and the white ones i found match the same shape of the more mature darker one i just found and looked at with 100x scope. DEFFINATELY a mite of some kind. no spots so not your typical bad webbing mite. these mites are only found by me on the saucers. they have 8 lets and the first set of legs reach out far ahead versus the other legs. i have no idea is these are bad or good mites. ahh

update, I have 100% confirmed with a 100x scope that i have hypoaspis miles and springtails and barely any more fungus gnats! yey

Forbid 4f at minimum recommended dosage Mixed with standard dose of tetrasan 5 wdg.

Your mite problrms are DONE. Period, end of story.

Don't spray past week 2 of flower.