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Clover Mites (was - Tiny red bugs on windowsills, walls, footpaths etc)

  • 24-05-2012 11:00am
    #1
    shligo.bulker
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    Dont know if this is the right forum for this, but can anybody tell me what the hell these red bugs are that spread all over windowsills, walls, footpaths, stone, concrete etc? They only seem to come out in the summer and they freak me out tbh lol. They only seem to be starting to come out again now, but its the same everywhere. Within a week a white windowsill becomes a red windowsill due to the hundreds of thousands of those tiny red bugs. Then of course that eventually leads to finding them in the house. In cutlery, on clothes, sometimes even on food! Iv trawled the internet and can not find any info on them, just hundreds of people asking the same question as me. I hope somebody here knows what they are and how to get rid of them.


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  • #2
    kildare.17hmr
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    Dnt know much except we always called them blood suckers!


  • #3
    shligo.bulker
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    kildare.17hmr wrote: »
    Dnt know much except we always called them blood suckers!
    I wish i could get rid of them


  • #4
    kildare.17hmr
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    Clover mites

    http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2095.html

    You didnt look very hard on google! :)


  • #5
    shligo.bulker
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    kildare.17hmr wrote: »
    Clover mites

    http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2095.html

    You didnt look very hard on google! :)
    Thanks a million for that. And i actually did look hard on google, maybe i didnt use the proper wording in my searches or something. But thanks again, great info on that link.


  • #6
    kildare.17hmr
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    Ill actually have a read of it myself later because my kids were only asking the other day what they were after they came in with red hands from squashing them :rolleyes:


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  • #7
    shligo.bulker
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    kildare.17hmr wrote: »
    Ill actually have a read of it myself later because my kids were only asking the other day what they were after they came in with red hands from squashing them :rolleyes:
    Haha well it says they dont bite or anything anyway. I just hate the idea of them crawling on me. As a kid my grandmothers entire house was completley covered in them. I woke up there one night to find them all over the bed! I freaked out big time and iv hated them ever since.


  • #8
    swifts need our help!
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    Velvet mites. They dont do any harm

    Mark


  • #9
    recedite
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    Velvet mites ; 5mm across
    Clover mites ; < 1mm I think these are the ones swarming on the warm concrete.


  • #10
    kylith
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    kildare.17hmr wrote: »
    Dnt know much except we always called them blood suckers!
    So did we! I used to imagine real X-Files scenarios :o


  • #11
    kildare.17hmr
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    kylith wrote: »
    kildare.17hmr wrote: »
    Dnt know much except we always called them blood suckers!
    So did we! I used to imagine real X-Files scenarios :o
    I just used to squash them with my finger!


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  • #12
    whyulittle
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    They were known as bloodsuckers here too, and mostly squashed as well!


  • #13
    slowburner
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    Likewise with 'bloodsuckers'.
    Why on earth did we have this compulsion to squash these creatures, when we knew full well they were harmless?
    I always associate them with very good summer weather - there weren't many of them around for the past 3/4.


  • #14
    kylith
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    slowburner wrote: »
    Likewise with 'bloodsuckers'.
    Why on earth did we have this compulsion to squash these creatures, when we knew full well they were harmless?
    I always associate them with very good summer weather - there weren't many of them around for the past 3/4.
    I think it's because of the 'bloodsucker' thing. No-one actually knew what they were so we thought they were dangerous, meaning that we'd get them before they got us.


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