Spidermites again? or wtf is this?

For F***s SAKE! Last year i did a grow on my garden and my plant got raped by fucking spider mites and leaf miners. This season, i planned to start my plants on my building's roof and then transplant them into the forest (which i have holes ready). So today i come up to check on them, and guess what i find on the floor? Fucking bloody red pests crawling left and right and some webbing on my plants. I found a couple on the pots too before i smashed the fuck out of them, but there were none on the stems and leaves.
My question is this, if these are spider mites, then wtf are they doing on the fucking roof where there are no freaking plants that live up there. What the hell caught their attention up there? I'm 100% sure they were already there before i started my plants, i just didn't know it back then.
Also i live in the Middle East (Lebanon), and i can't get access to any organic pesticide/insecticide over here since there are no sellers for this stuff.
I have the perfect weather/temperature, but every single time i want to grow, spider mites and leaf miners come out of fucking no where!
People please i need a solution for this! What can i do to get rid of those fuckers?! I'm really desperate here. (Forgot to add, i don't have any habanero. But i do have Trinidad Scorpion Moruga peppers, do you think this will work if i use it on them?)

Here are some pics, just to show you that the amount of spider mites is insane. (I also need to be re-assured if these are truly mites or if I'm mistaken)

Look like velvet mites to me.



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jondamon said:

Look like velvet mites to me.



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Yea i googled it, that's the one. Is this a problem? Or are they harmless to plans?

OK I found this:

Exterminators and some gardening websites lump them all and espouse universal mite-i-cide (and many Bloggers pass along the “facts” they pick up at these sites). But, neither adult nor immature Thrombid RVMs bite your plants or your pets or you. Young RVMs are parasites (blood-suckers) on grasshoppers, daddy long-legs, beetles and other ground-dwelling, cold-blooded critters (including plant hoppers, apparently), which they attach to and ride around on. Adult RVMs eat insect eggs and prey on very small invertebrates (like ants) (if RVMs are on your plants, they’re hunting for something you probably don’t want there). Because they consume some planr-eating insects and because they eat the animals that eat the organisms that carry out the important work of decomposition, RVMs are considered helpful to ecosystems.

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Source: https://www4.uwm.edu/fieldstation/naturalhistory/bugoftheweek/red_velvet_mite.cfm

Can any1 verify? I don't want to kill them if they're not the ones causing problems.

Seems there are mixed reviews based on the type of velvet mite.


Most however are insect feeders.

IMO though you could do with removing any on your plants and possibly creating some sticky circles around your plants that they can get stuck in before getting to them.

Something like tar or anti vandal paint. Something that stays sticky.



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