Comments on: Controlling Mites in a Worm Bin

By: Bentley

Bentley — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 21:56:31 +0000

Thanks for sharing your findings, Rhonda!
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By: Rhonda

Rhonda — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 13:16:57 +0000

I am going through the exact same thing..red spider mites i think is what they are called…they are itty bitty tiny little things and they are in a redish brownish color and i have used this baiting method…it helped but didn’t eradicate them , i also used diatomaceous Earth and spread it all over the top of my bin and i didn’t notice if that helped at all…then i even tried Neem oil diluted in rain water and a few drops of dawn dish soap to see if that would get rid of them and nothing seems to get rid of them! Does anyone else have any other better suggestions than the ones I’ve already used and continue to use?

By: Mirta

Mirta — Sun, 03 May 2020 00:23:19 +0000

Thank YOU! Very helpful!

By: walter bowen

walter bowen — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 17:03:34 +0000

red mites are attacking my worms . is that just because they are sick?

By: Debbie

Debbie — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 15:01:11 +0000

What about the covered worms? Will they live after the mites are gone? I have a lot of worms covered with the mites. Can they be saved? Also, (FYI) I might mention that unknowing, I spread the mites by moving worms from one bin to another. Should I dump the dirt out and start over?

Debbie

By: Texgal

Texgal — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 15:30:10 +0000

Personally, I’d add liquid soap to the water and that should kill them.

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 01 May 2012 06:19:37 +0000

Odd question, but what do you do with the water once you’ve rinsed the mites off? Dump it down your drain?

Thanks,

Karen

By: Tibor

Tibor — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:03:04 +0000

That’s a very nice way of doing it (I instinctively did the same thing during the initial phase of my bin’s infestation), the only problem with watermelon might be that it’s also the favourite food of red wigglers, so sometimes you need to remove several wigglers in order to take the melons inside and rinse.

By: Jimena

Jimena — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:11:05 +0000

I had same problem one year ago, but what about the tiny white mites?
This is a powerful post, thanks for share!!