Quote Originally Posted by Corrupter View Post
I'm just throwing this out there as an alternative to chemicals. I have a friend who swears by this method because it gets rid of every stage of mites, including the eggs. I am currently trying it for the first time and so far, I would say it is working. It appears that there are no more mites left on or around the 2 snakes that I treated last week, but time will tell if they are completely eradicated. Here is the link:

http://www.biconet.com/biocontrol/hypoaspis.html
I too have read something like this in the VPI book, the only problem with the creatures they were talking about was they were very hard to keep alive for any amount of time, and it took several "rounds" if you will. I don't know how those bugs did with the eggs, because it would seem to me that the bugs would only eat the moving adults, and not the eggs after they had been laid. Leaving the door open for a reinfestation.

But, I think it's something worth mentioning like you had I have no idea if they were the same insect or not.