Aspen mites??

[wildlifewarrior]

I recently went to visit a pet store that was using aspen chips not the shredded type, he was showing me some stuff, and in some of his tubs he has what looked like fruit flies, he called them aspen mites and said they don't bother the snakes. Anyone hear of this or experienced it??

wildlifewarrior

[wildlifewarrior]

Anyone ever hear of them??

ww

[jcaustralia]

yup i have noticed a whit looking insect that looked like mites when i used aspen, i have not noticed any issues but i stopped using aspen went to newspaper. but what i did was i would pour the aspin in a container, tub, trash can, etc and spay it with preventomite spray.

[mr~python]

nope, never heard of "aspen mites". sure sounds like mites to me though. sounds like petstore guy was lieing to you or didnt know what he was talking about.

[TekWarren]

If they where properly caring for their animals there would not be any insects where they shouldn't be. I've never heard of "aspen mites" take care that you didn't bring any home with you on your clothes.

[wildlifewarrior]

Yea i don't have any snakes here (im in another state for a few more weeks) They were in with his breeding colony of bps, which i thought was wierd. They didn't look like snake mites, they looked more like friut flies. I didn't see them in all of his cages, just a few which i thought was really wierd. I had never heard of "aspen mites" before either but i haven't used aspen so i wasn't sure. Thanks for the info!


if anyone else has any ideas or experience feel free to let me know!

ww

[tigerlily]

I've never heard of aspen mites, but I know some people find bugs in their aspen. You can 'bake' your aspen to get rid of them. They are not snake mites, but anything crawling is not cool in my house.

[wildlifewarrior]

i hear ya!

[Liquid Snake 06]

ive been using aspen for 2 months now. havent seen anything yet. and i dont plan on seeing mite either lol. knock on wood.

[jotay]

I use to get little bugs in my Reptibark but they where not snake mites.
That's the reason I switched to Natures Best because it is already heat treated. Since switching I have not notice a thing and that was over a year ago.