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What exactly do these little 'bugs' look like? are they black?

Kathryn
http://tinyurl.com/5lws5n, i`m new here and i`m sorry if i have poste
this in the wrong section but here goes....
I have bought two venus fly trap plants last week, they are in a smal
plastic pot with holes in the bottom. I have them stood on plates and
have noticed that when i move the pots there is some sort of little (
mean tiny) bugs running around. It seems worse when i have just watere
them but they are there all of the time.
Is this normal?  What are the little creatures? my immediate though
was to bin the plants but i don`t really want to.
Thanks for any advice/help give

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Kathryn Selfe

On Jul 17, 3:24 am, donna30 <donna30.2f4a...@gardenbanter.co.uk>
wrote:

Any chance of a more complete description? Are they red, for instance?

Try putting out a piece of white paper (outside!) and banging the
plant onto it. The critters should drop off, and a decent magnifying
glass should give you an opportunity to get a good look at them. When
you say "tiny" I immediately thought 'red spider mite', which is a
very common plant parasite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetranychus_urticae

Chris

Chris