WestKnollAmy
The Crazy Chicken Lady
I am not quite sure how I got mites.
It was in the bin (plastic storage bin) that sat right in front of the sliding glass door that we use the most often. No curtain up then and very warm there.
I first noticed them when my DD brought home a seed kit to grow Forget Me Nots. She sat the little kit on the same table and I soon saw little white critters all over. But the humidity is high here with storms every day and that door opening so often let in a lot of humidity so maybe they were always there and just exploded when the environment was right.
My other 2 bins are on 2 other tables and they did not get them but they are closer to the corner and in a darker area. I tried to make a new bin with the wormies that were left and some beetles from the mite infested bin but there were so many pupae and I figured the mites were already on the pupae, beetles and wormies so I just put the worms and beetles in it and let them have newspaper and some carrots. I made that bin very dark in the corner. The pupae are still in my first bin and I am hoping now that I moved their table and put my heavy curtains back up that the mites will die back. As of right now the mites are still all over the walls of the bin and I have more dead beetles in there than anywhere. I thought I got all the beetles out but I just lifted a paper and there were about 40 under it eating on a carrot along with a few wormies I missed.
It was in the bin (plastic storage bin) that sat right in front of the sliding glass door that we use the most often. No curtain up then and very warm there.
I first noticed them when my DD brought home a seed kit to grow Forget Me Nots. She sat the little kit on the same table and I soon saw little white critters all over. But the humidity is high here with storms every day and that door opening so often let in a lot of humidity so maybe they were always there and just exploded when the environment was right.
My other 2 bins are on 2 other tables and they did not get them but they are closer to the corner and in a darker area. I tried to make a new bin with the wormies that were left and some beetles from the mite infested bin but there were so many pupae and I figured the mites were already on the pupae, beetles and wormies so I just put the worms and beetles in it and let them have newspaper and some carrots. I made that bin very dark in the corner. The pupae are still in my first bin and I am hoping now that I moved their table and put my heavy curtains back up that the mites will die back. As of right now the mites are still all over the walls of the bin and I have more dead beetles in there than anywhere. I thought I got all the beetles out but I just lifted a paper and there were about 40 under it eating on a carrot along with a few wormies I missed.
