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How to get rid of mites

Started By AntsGodzilla , Sep 18 2024 2:32 PM
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#1 Offline AntsGodzilla - Posted September 18 2024 - 2:32 PM

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Help! I've seen tiny orange-white mites with my Pogonomyrmex, and I think that's what might be killing them. How do I get rid of the mites?


 

And many Carnivorous plants such as: Dionea muscipula (fly trap), Sarracenia x 'Fiona' ( American Pitcher plant), Nepenthese ventrata (Tropical Pitcher plant), and Pinguicula agnata x emarginata (Butterwort) (show off your plants here)

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Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores it's provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. Proverbs 6: 6-8

 

Myrmecocystus depilis

 

#2 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted September 18 2024 - 3:20 PM

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Are they attached to the workers or just in the nest with them?


"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

#3 Offline AntsGodzilla - Posted September 18 2024 - 3:29 PM

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I can't get a good look at the ants, all I know is that some of them have got crippled and died soon after, and I have only seen the mites around the ant's trash. They are too small and blend in well with the sand in the nest to get a good look.


Edited by AntsGodzilla, September 18 2024 - 3:29 PM.

 

And many Carnivorous plants such as: Dionea muscipula (fly trap), Sarracenia x 'Fiona' ( American Pitcher plant), Nepenthese ventrata (Tropical Pitcher plant), and Pinguicula agnata x emarginata (Butterwort) (show off your plants here)

Godzilla thread

Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores it's provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. Proverbs 6: 6-8

 

Myrmecocystus depilis

 

#4 Offline IdioticMouse26 - Posted September 18 2024 - 4:05 PM

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introducing predatory mites, cleaning up the trash pile, moving your ants one-by-one to a new nest while checking for mites are some solutions.


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