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I've been having these bugs show up periodically in the soil, usually i see them under the pots and they'll start moving away after i lift the pots up. I have my clones in cups right now and some of them are showing signs of stress like slightly wavy leaves and some leaves end up bleaching and completely dying off which indicates to me stress being caused to me in the roots. Some plants seem to not be bothered at all or the bugs dont even really bother them too much. I've been feeding them caps bennies tea and after feeding today i checked on them and in one of the cups i saw a bunch of these bugs walking around the top sides of the cup and along the top of the soil as if they either got pulled out from the rootzone or are really thriving from the tea. I've studied them looking at how they look in the different age periods and i noticed some of them seem to kind of hop away which seems a lot of the descriptions of various springtails. I know springtails are supposed to be beneficial but if these are indeed springtails they don't seem all that beneficial as they seem to be eating or bothering the roots. I tried to take about 20-25 pics and zooming in with macro to get a good image but this is the best one out of all of them and then the battery died. If anyone can identify this bug or give me any advice on it i'd greatly appreciate it. I plan on trying to take a video to show them better once the battery is done charging.