Tiny white bug

[d_virginiana]

I don't know how this thread went from discussing bugs to cupcakes in such a short time, but I'm not complaining about it I'm personally going to try making baklava this weekend if I can find the stuff for it.

Hm.. When I see bugs in my animals' bedding, I usually pretend I didn't see it. Then I check back a day or two later, and if there is still something there I swallow my aversion to dealing with insects and do a bedding-change. (Never had mites, just random things like fruit fly larvae and cricket hoppers...)

[katach]

Ok I did some looking and I think it's a wood mite. Image and instructions on how to rid them.
How to Get Rid of Wood Mites | eHow.com


Ok, now back to cupcakes and cookies!

[infernalis]

Ok, now back to cupcakes and cookies!

http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/gart...t-shh-shh.html

Thanks..

[EasternGirl]

Weird...I put a post up here the other night, but apparently it didn't go up for some reason. I said that I wouldn't mind having a recipe for peanut butter and chocolate chip cookies . Wasn't there a post up here about peanut butter and chocolate chip cookies? Good grief! What is going on...am I imagining things?

[katach]

It got moved to the oh so quiet thread. This was getting way too off track. (sorry)

[EasternGirl]

no that's fine...at least I know I'm not losing my mind!

[ConcinusMan]

Still trying to figure out what white bugs have to do with cookies... but nevermind.. Sounds like a harmless bug that can often be seen in soil/decaying plant matter. However, I've never seen them unless the substrate was dirty and/or too damp. They don't do well unless there is significant moisture and/or bacteria growth/decomp. Might want to make sure your substrate is dry and clean and humidity isn't too high. The same kind of conditions that allow these bugs to thrive can cause problems for your snake.

Have any live plants/soil been in the tank? What about wood objects? There's many ways for them to get in there but they won't survive for long if the substrate is dry as it should be.

[Mommy2many]

I've had them. Someone once told me they come from plants and are harmless, though no less bothersome to us (people, not snakes) I still get them on occasion, though I have no live plants in my tanks. I do use aspen shavings and have live plants near and around my tanks. They are tiny, white and I have seen them on my snakes. More of a PITA I believe than anything else.

[kimbosaur]

It looked exactly like the picture Kat posted.

As for the enclosure, the humidity doesn't seem to be too high at 55%. The substrate is completely dry pretty much all of the time. Either way, I think I will be switching substrates because my albino regurgitated a piece of Tilapia about 30 mins after I fed it to her and it was covered with aspen. I'm still nervous of whether or not she got any into her system, so I will be getting either some newspaper pellets or repti-bark.

[katach]

We switched to care fresh it lasts a bit longer in the tanks and is about the same price when you take into account the frequency of changing. It doesn't stick to the food as much either. The pinkies I got from Layne Labs were so amazing that when they defrost they aren't sticky at all.