I've decided to write this as a story in order to make up for asking this question, which (having backlogged almost a years worth of posts has been asked a dozen times).
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It wasn't an unusual morning that day. Having gotten home from my job exhausted the morning before, and falling asleep at 4:30am, I woke around noon. I ate a quick breakfast of cheerios and raspberries, headed to the gym, and returned home to check on my scorpions.
My emp scorpion was snug as a bug. I changed her water, checked her soil humidity, and her temperature, and was pleased with myself that she's starting to show signs of an unstressed life.
I did the same with my Asian Forest. His shiny blue armour was always the highlight of my day. I changed the water, checked the levels, and then decided to steal a peak into his favorite hide.
Having been disturbing him the previous day by removing this hide in order to acquire some cricket legs, left over meals from 12 hours earlier, I was careful to leave him to his peace today.
He was burrowed, so all I could see was the promise of cricket death in his claws. But what I saw lying before him, almost stopped my heart...
...mites. Little white mites.
A ball of dirty goo lay infront of his claws. Most definately a part of the meal that I had missed. It had been 24 hours since last feeding. This little ball of goo was crawling, encased almost completely by little, white, mites.
I paniced, grabbed the log and my tweezers simultaniously, and removed the ball of crawling hatred.
I studied it for while, watching this little creatures. Having familiarized myself with them, I turned to the internet.
"White, clustered on food, seemingly rapid movement from some of them." However, I had never experienced mites before, so rapid movement is an entirely subjective term.
I grabbed my flashlight after transporting these to my outside garbage can, and inspected my scorpion "Slug" as carefully as possible without moving her. It was now 1:30pm, and I was late for work.
Thankfully, I did not see any on her, however I noticed another smaller ball covered in the same mites. I treated this like the first. There are also some in the dirt. Localized around her favorite feeding spot, which I had been so careful to maintain through OCD level cleaning.
Grabbing my camera... No good. The zoom wasen't clear enough on the things!
I googled for 30 minutes, and turned to my forum. I quickly realized they would be sick of another question involving mites, so I wrote a story, ending it with...
"I'm cool with these things provided they aren't swarming my bugs joints right? Probably helpful buggers?"
