I will say that if you have/had beneficial mites they are/were feeding on something. Some will alternate to pollen but by definition in our realm if they are beneficial, they predominantly feed on pests. IMO large populations of any insect, pest or beneficial is cause for action.
Tbh I disagree , at least for these species of mites
‘’it was only a decomposition eating medium based mite . If we didn’t have these mites the worms would be in trouble and also our soils would be a graveyard of crap, like many things these mites do a circle of life to keep organics broken down and dead things.this mite doesn’t even go for other alive bugs. This kind of mite is 100% wanted in organic living mediums
tbh people who go organics or growing in general need to realize it’s not if u get bugs that get ur garden it’s what Bugs exactly but also the factor before ag. these bugs are always here . it’s just most of the time they are under the ground. not like they have to show off and say high to the grower to function?
honestly over cleaning and trying to become “sterile” and killing things is why we even have pest pressure issues, balance of everything like microbes is the balance to not get fucked if that makes any sense. if you didn’t have the beneficial bacteria/fungi those unwanted/bad bacteria/fungi would wipe ya out in a instant and ever before you “kill” them, shoot if you lose ur natural immunity or ba , so why with bugs want to kill them if these bugs are helping ya? i would have a good ipm like I suggested and know these bugs are ur bennies/decompose in stomach u are soo fucked.. same with everything we depend on decompose bacteria/bugs and anything that does those actions
just saying
if it was me I would try to keep the good bugs and anything in ur medium alive. right now I even put worms and rove, and h miles in my medium and even when I close up shop. As long as i chop the plant and let the root mass and misc stay. Whatcha know by the time I redo garden the worms and decompost population 100% ate it and are still there for most part. it would be so costly to reintroduce but also sad if I I’m killing a population that took awhile to get at that. Like many things it’s not instant ( this is also why I re-use my medium) . I would suggest letting medium stay alive and not dry over season . without that I was rebuying stuff and never got to this level of natrual defense and natrual break down /composting in my medium. Seeing is believing !
I'm a week or two away from one finishing. Extremely orange smelling.....hope it smokes great!
