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How to get rid of mites

Started By AntsGodzilla , Yesterday, 2:32 PM
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#1 Offline AntsGodzilla - Posted Yesterday, 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?


I keep:

(angry) Pogonomyrmex Rugosus,
(stubborn) Myrmecocystus Deplisis
Tetramorium Immigrans
Monomorium Minimum

And many Carnivorous plants such as:

Dionea (fly trap)

Sarracenia x 'Fiona' ( American Pitcher plant)

Nepenthese ventrata (Tropical Pitcher plant

Pinguicula agnata x emarginata (Butterwort) 

#2 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted Yesterday, 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

 

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Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. subsericea, unidentified fusca group sp. 

Formica cf. ravida, cf. obscuriventris

Myrmica sp.

#3 Offline AntsGodzilla - Posted Yesterday, 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, Yesterday, 3:29 PM.

I keep:

(angry) Pogonomyrmex Rugosus,
(stubborn) Myrmecocystus Deplisis
Tetramorium Immigrans
Monomorium Minimum

And many Carnivorous plants such as:

Dionea (fly trap)

Sarracenia x 'Fiona' ( American Pitcher plant)

Nepenthese ventrata (Tropical Pitcher plant

Pinguicula agnata x emarginata (Butterwort) 

#4 Offline IdioticMouse26 - Posted Yesterday, 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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