millions of brown colored mites in woodchips.

[maxjohnson]

So I bought some eucalyptus woodchips from HomeDepot, which I have used many times before without problems. Used it to mulch 4 of my containers. Now I see there are a bunch of shiny brown mites infesting it.

I am certain my container mix didn't have mites before, I mixed it myself and didn't have a bunch of mites crawling on my hands, which is the case now if I handle these woodchips. I gathered the chips into a garbage bad and tied it, but it's too late for the containers.

I am not sure how damaging they will be, but level of infestation in the woodchips scared me a bit. I have seen brown colored mites in my soil before, but they never give any problem or damage greens, so I'm hoping these are benign. Still I'm really really mad right now.