What are these bugs!?!

wardy90

Please someone help, recently noticed some tiny white bugs on the dining room chairs, and since on the kitchen bin, also things that go on the floor like when the kids are colouring on their books, you can hardly see them they look like a tiny white specs until I use my phone torch and look closely. Managed to get a close up, please can someone tell me what they are and how I can rid of them. Thanks

adonis

Maybe dust mites,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_dust_mite

L_T_88

Not clear, but outline seems to correspond with a dust mite.

webjaved

It looks to me like dust mite that. Get that sorted pronto.

JJR45

Dust mites are microscopic. So I seriously doubt dust mites.
At a guess they would be grain mites as they are visible.

musehead

JJR45 said:

Dust mites are microscopic. So I seriously doubt dust mites.

It says on the Wiki page above, that dust mites are around 0.2mm - 0.3mm long. That would be visible, although it would look like just a speck. Not sure if that's what OP's bug is though.

JJR45

musehead said:

JJR45 said:

Dust mites are microscopic. So I seriously doubt dust mites.

It says on the Wiki page above, that dust mites are around 0.2mm - 0.3mm long. That would be visible, although it would look like just a speck. Not sure if that's what OP's bug is though.

You missed the other line on wiki
"House dust mites, due to their very small size and translucent bodies, are barely visible to the unaided eye."

From another site

"What is a dust mite? Dust mites can be difficult to detect due to their small size. These microscopic arthropods are estimated to be only 1/4 to 1/3 millimeters long. You can only see them under a microscope, and even then, they only look like small white spider-like creatures."

Every house has dust mites, you mattress will be full of them. But you will not see them.

As these have been photographed on a phone I doubt they are dust mites, unless it has a microscope for macro mode.

youth_leader

Have you got any house plants? 

swingaloo2

To me they look very much like grain mites. When my father in law died I found a cupboard where my mother in law who had died 12 months previously had kept flour which was way out of date and full of these mites.They had spread to all the packet foodstuff in the cupboard. 

Check out all the kitchen cupboards and find the source then hoover all the crevices and wash with hot soapy water.

hoping24

Like above says I think you need to find the source- where they’re coming from. If you’re seeing some there are more elsewhere- check plants, food stores. 

Upzeecreek

Mould/ mold mites?