It’s way smaller then a tick, I was totally zoomed in. It’s smaller then an ant head. (Those are male pollen sacks at the bottom of the cup.) When I squish them they leave a little red spot. I think they’re concrete mites (https://bygl.osu.edu/node/1588) as I primarily see them on my brick patio. But I’ve seen a bunch of sites confuse concrete mites (which eat other mites) with glover mites (which eat plants).
i got neem oil my seedling are only 2 or 3 days old i do not want to burn them with the oil
Whats that pic taken with a regular camera
I agree.
Wash them off.as best you can and do it daily. Isolate and keep in a sterile environment. Use a hand sprayer with something covering the soil so as not to saturate the soil with water daily. 1 in a few days = 33 x 33 x33 and so on daily if you're not on top of this. Water knocks them off but not the eggs so you need to keep at it until no more eggs or bugs crawling. Small plants are easier than big ones to get rid of them on but if they're crawling on your babies you've got some troubles to deal with. Kill them all, their grandma's grandpa's mommies daddies their children and there eggs.
The video was taken with an iPad (digital zoom) so not great. The CU picture of the red mite isn’t mine, just pulled from online. I suspect the red mite pictured is the adult female two spotted, and the male is the clearer body with distinctive black spots (as when I’ve had an infection, I see both).
