So yesterday i was cleaning up some poop and noticed some little bugs crawling around on the paper towel (i take the poop out with a plastic fork and put it on a paper towel then throw it out). i started rooting through the bedding (cedar mulch bought from petsmart for reptiles) and found them all over. so, i was worried that they were mites. I am a biologist with access to a microscope and all the fixins so i took a sample of the substrate and went through it at work. I found 2 termites in this small sample. i am a taxonomist and know the difference between mites and termites the main difference being termites are not true mites. mites are arachnids and termites are more like ants.
what should i do to get rid of them? should i ditch the mulch and how should i prep the new mulch to make sure there are no mites?
