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Small red insects

  • 06-07-2013 10:00am
    #1
    Dubflier
    Registered Users Posts: 31 ✭


    Hi

    This is more out of curiosity than anything else, just noticed a large number of very small bright red insects milling around on the concrete out side the back door. The sun is blasting the path area and they wouldn't be any more than 1 mm in size (so don't ask me to post a picture).
    Any ideas what these lads are and should I be iradicating them or just let them get on with it.

    Dubflier


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  • #2
    shamrock55
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,210 ✭✭✭shamrock55


    Is this the first time you have ever seen these they are very common as kids we used to callthem blood suckers and squish then regularly just because of the red goo dont know what they are really called though


  • #3
    Dubflier
    Registered Users Posts: 31 ✭Dubflier


    shamrock55 wrote: »
    Is this the first time you have ever seen these they are very common as kids we used to callthem blood suckers and squish then regularly just because of the red goo dont know what they are really called though

    Hi
    No I have seen them before at the front of the house, usually on very sunny days when its quite dry and warm, they are always on the concrete.
    Dubflier


  • #4
    Mothman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭Mothman


    They're Clover Mites

    While the link may suggest otherwise, they are not usually an issue worth dealing with.

    They're not insects, which only have 6 legs. These little things have 8 legs.....not that they're big enough to easily tell :)


  • #5
    Dubflier
    Registered Users Posts: 31 ✭Dubflier


    Mothman wrote: »
    They're Clover Mites

    While the link may suggest otherwise, they are not usually an issue worth dealing with.

    They're not insects, which only have 6 legs. These little things have 8 legs.....not that they're big enough to easily tell :)

    Thanks you seem to be spot on,

    FREE TO GOOD HOME CLOVER MITES AS MANY AS YOU LIKE

    I don't like the idea that they can make their way inside as I already had an episode with ants on the kitchen work top a couple of months back.


  • #6
    Tulipout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 134 ✭✭Tulipout


    shamrock55 wrote: »
    blood suckers

    Its a long time since I've heard them called by that name:)


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  • #7
    scarepanda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,454 ✭✭✭scarepanda


    We used to call them gods cows .... No idea why, but we used to squish them as well


  • #8
    meoklmrk91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    We called um blood spiders.


  • #9
    Glebee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,662 ✭✭✭Glebee


    scarepanda wrote: »
    We used to call them gods cows .... No idea why, but we used to squish them as well

    Same here, gods cows is what I know them as


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