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I've noticed some tiny metallic bugs crawling around in the soil of some of my terrarium plants, and just recently I saw a few on my plants as well. They're showing no signs of damage and I've noticed them for about 2 weeks now. The bugs themselves as I said, are metallic silver looking, and about the size of a flea. Any information would be great.

I would love to see photo of that.

after doing some research im about 95% sure its the larval stage of fungus gnats.

what are these their red and they look like tiny little spiders and crawl with 6 legs?

You mean aphids?

manzano167 wrote:what are these their red and they look like tiny little spiders and crawl with 6 legs?

I believe you mean spider mites, are you seeing them on your plants? Then again, you shouldn't be able to see them since they're so tiny.

i can see them there like the size of 1 VFT seed

spring tails?

whatever they are, hope you get rid of em. good luck! hope they don't do any harm

if they're spring tails they should be ok unless it gets to be an infestation. I've never had them cause my plants any harm.

Lawndude84 wrote:I've noticed some tiny metallic bugs crawling around in the soil of some of my terrarium plants, and just recently I saw a few on my plants as well. They're showing no signs of damage and I've noticed them for about 2 weeks now. The bugs themselves as I said, are metallic silver looking, and about the size of a flea. Any information would be great.

hey, i know this is an old thread but i've seen these on my plant lately and i'm wondering whether you have any more info about them ! weird little things; they don't seem to be hurting anything, but i just want to be sure.

Probably thrips.. Use some acephate or Neem.

jamez wrote:Probably thrips.. Use some acephate or Neem.

they're not thrips; i've had those before and neem seems to have no effect on them...i'll keep trying, though. thanks !

They sound to me like flea beetles, dont touch them and just give them a direct spray of neem. They will die on the plant and can be scraped off a few days afterwards.

If in doubt again ive got a thread saying about all pests and solutions

Good luck!