If they were so big that you could easily see them running around, and especially if they were *running*, they were most probably little red spiders that eat spider mites. They are your friends!

Well, one of them for SURE was a spider mite, because it was pretty tiny and all red and when I killed it it was just a bit read smear XD But there were some much bigger ones and I'm not familiar with bugs, so, I suppose that could be the case! Spiders freak me out o_0;; And they were /definitely/ running, fast!

Yay to the little spiders that eat the mites :-D

I guess I won't worry too much about it, then! I was VERY worried that I would destroy all my plants after this one weekend outside!

Spider mites don't run fast, and the little mite eaters are bright red, more red than SM.

I could not remember the name of the good guys, but I found it back. They are also mites, but predatory ones: red velvet mite.

Spider mites move fairly quickly, but the red predatory mites are much much faster. If they zip around very quickly then you don't have anything to worry about. =)

It sounds like I have a lot of predatory critters!

That seems to be what's happening; the ones that I can see look like they are on a /mission/, and I don't really have any new growth, persay. I did a thorough check of everything and don't see anything that looks either super tiny or egg-like in anyway.

lovely collection btw

Thanks, Andrea! I am very proud of my little teeny garden :3