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    brandongalea
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    Angry Mites

    Recently I opened a plastic bag full of sphagnum moss, which I had put in another bag of sheet moss inside which had a paper label on it. The sphagnum moss and the paper label was full of what looked like mites, so i threw away the whole thing, but apparently the mites got on some chipboard furniture and start breeding in the cracks. I'm concerned that they might harm my pets & live food (frogs, mantises, tarantulas, roaches crickets, earthworms, mealworms), they seem to inhabit mostly the furniture and the incubator, but recently they have started to spread out, so I thought they might be dust mites or common household mites.
    In Malta the humidity is high so it is not easy to dessicate them, so I am using a dehumidifier, maybe I can decimate their colony.
    I tried cleaning the furniture with bleach diluted with water and tried spraying the solution in the cracks but it didn't work, so if you have any other ideas you are welcome to share.
    The most important question is - Will these mites harm my pets?

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    Kurt
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    Default Re: Mites

    Alcohol works and does heat. Mites won't hurt frogs, but they can wipe out fruit fly and springtail cultures.

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