| If your plant looks like this   Photo - Janet Stromborg Broad mites are slightly smaller than cyclamen mites and are colorless-to-pale brown with a white stripe down the center of their backs. | Search for broad mites 
Photo - James R. Baker White Flies carry broad mites on their legs and can leave the mites on your plants. |
If your plant looks like this Photo - James R. Baker Adult cyclamen mites are tiny, football-shaped, semi-transparent, shiny, orange-pink or brownish, with eight legs. They are about 1/100 inch long and difficult to see without magnification. | Search for cyclamen mites Photo- James R. Baker The hind pair of legs in the female is threadlike, and those of the male are pincer-like. The immature cyclamen mites are glassy white, or transparent pale green with six legs. |
| Not all mites are bad. Predatory mites can provide ongoing biological control of pest mites. They don't eat your plants. Predatory mites feed on spider mites, thrips, and whiteflies. Here's a fact that may make you a little nervous -- the world has more than 100,000 mite species. See Nancy's humorous Cyclamen Mites Story Chart by Alana | Predatory Mite Having a Feast 
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