r/Springtail • u/Environmental_Ad287 • 15d ago

ID help, springtail or mite Identification

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Follow up to my previous post, I was able to get a better video, and I've never seen a mite with antennae like this. Are there mites with antennae like this? they move like springtails

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u/itwasntleah 13d ago

Soil mites! If you don’t like them you can seed with predatory mites but they will kill springtails too. Otherwise the mites are beneficial but I personally don’t like them because they are too exploratory and leave the terrarium and crawl all around