Please Read! Totally flabbergasted!!

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I really have no idea where this thread should go, so if a mod thinks there's a better location, by all means, toss this somewhere else...

I don't even know where to start... I bought this hog feed for my ASFs in May/June and started using it immediately. All of my feeder supplies, as well as all the ASFs are kept in my unfinished basement. Sometime in June, I noticed somewhat of a fine dust all over the 5gallon bucket lid that I emptied the hog feed bag into. I didn't pay any attention to it at all because I thought it was simply dust from the hog feed pellets after scooping a load into the ASF tubs.

I keep a jug of water down there (on top of the 5gallon bucket full of hog feed) so that I don't have to constantly have to run up and down the stairs when filling the ASF's water.

I've noticed the dust over everything around the hog feed bucket area and used a towel a few days ago to wipe all the dust off.

Well.... all the dust was back today so I looked closely at it.... And they're like microscopic bugs!!!!!!!!!! They are like the size of a pin head and barely move a quarter of an inch every minute. They seem to congregate in big groups which form the dust look.

They look like light tan little specks! I've always thought this was just dust before!

Does anyone have a clue what this is??? It must have come from inside the hog feed bag right??? The bucket that I emptied the feed into had a lid from the time that I put it all in there, but it isn't air tight... so these bugs could be from an external factor... But it just seems highly unlikely because our basement is very clean.

What is this crap!?

i have them also. they look like some type of mite. they are not reptile mites nor are they actually on my rats or mice. also i put one on my arm and left it there for awhile and they dont seem to bite me. they pretty much just like the hog food and harlan lab blocks