root aphids? please confirm?

[unregistered190]

I have been fighting these things for some time and have them under control (plants don't look bad) but cannot seem to get rid of them for good. Pictures I find do not match exactly but I thought they were root aphids and have been treating them as such.


What I find on the medium on the bottoms of the containers where there are holes to see.

And when I tear open a rapid rooter and look around the stem I find what appears to be the larva. I do not know how to embed a yt video so posted a link instead.


yt video of larva


I never see any fliers and do not find anything above the soil so I am dumbfounded as to how they keep spreading from plant to plant.


Thanks in advance

 

[moses wellfleet]

Negative. Those are most likely hypoaspis miles a beneficial predatory mite. If anything they are ridding your grow of pests.

 

[unregistered190]

MW I hope this is correct! I am so frustrated about right now. Gonna google that in a few. I did treat with hypoasis miles awhile back

 

[moses wellfleet]

Yeah have heard that their numbers can become alarming but I don’t recall ever hearing about actual damage.

The good news is those are 100% not root aphids which I unfortunately know very well and have a very costly relationship with said pests!

 

[Mattbho]

Not root aphids not miles either it's a fungus eating mite part of the cleanup crew . I had them collect on neem meal the scope was shocking!!! get some enzymes if they bother u .

They wont harm plants. I think if u squish them they have a minty smell

 

[moses wellfleet]

What I see in the video look more like enchytraeids, common name pot worms.

 

[Medium Pimpin']

they are beneficial

 

[AgentPothead]

I don't know enough about bug identification to really help with that, but to embed a youtube you wanna put the part at the end rBvYZWdJQ7E in between the youtube headers like this
[YOUTUBEIF]rBvYZWdJQ7E[/YOUTUBEIF]

 

[unregistered190]

Awesome feedback, great community here!

 

[Creeperpark]

They are called Oribatid mites. They eat algae, fungi, dead plants, tiny dead insects, and tiny live worms. They are the good guys and nothing to worry about.