I finally had planted a Marie Van Houtte band in the ground a few months ago. At first it was doing good then started to decline. I shoulda dug it up and repotted it for awhile but procrastinated and kept hoping it would recover. Well it finally bit the dust so I pulled it up and looked at the roots. I saw all these little brown lice-like bugs all over the rootball. What are they? They were long thin and tiny..kinda like thrips but just crawling everywhere. Kinda creepy lol. I've never seen anything like that before. Any one know?

I have a few other bands planted several feet away from this one and they are doing great!