Worm distaster!

[StlGreaser]

So I went to check on my super worm beetle colony and there where tiny white mites all over the lid. They are all throughout the wheat bran, on the inside and outside of the container. And then I notice they are all over my super worm container, and both of my meal worm colonies.

What are they, under a 100x microscope they look like a mite of some sort with hairs all over.

Are my colonies trash? Should I throw out the entire colonies or sort the worms out and just toss the wheat bran?

And I should have been seeing my first baby super worms soon too, dang!

 

[Paradon]

I had this happened before when I kept my cricket colony to humid without enough ventilation, but it didn't kill the crickets, though.... I'm not exactly sure what kind of mites they are, but they live on invertebrates if I'm not mistaken. Allow the cage or container to dry out should get rid of them; you're supers are find. But then again I fed off the crickets and didn't keep them very long to see what would happen...whether or not they will eventually die from the mites. [shrug] Hope this helps!