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What are those VERY tiny red bugs that when you smash them look like nothing but a blood spot?

They are so tiny it's hard to see them. They are literally about the size of a speck of dust! They are bright red and when you smash them, they leave nothing but what appears like a spot of red ink or blood.

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And are they harmful at all?

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  • 1 decade ago
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  • 1 decade ago

    They're called Velvet Mites..or Red Spider Mites. Even though they're annoying and everywhere it seems, they're not dangerous to humans at all. They are parasites, and only host off of grasshoppers.

  • 1 decade ago

    Acarus

  • 1 decade ago

    very annoying is what they are! There're not harmful really, but they do bite. It'll itch for about 5 seconds, but after that nothing will happen.

    they're no biggie, i have them on the stone wall around my garden.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Termites, look like walking blobs of blood yuk

  • 1 decade ago

    I think you're thinking of a red velvet mite. I don't think they're harmful.

  • 1 decade ago

    Spider mites, harmless to humans

    What could they do to you they are like 1,000,000,000 times smaller than you.....LOL

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    blood bugs

  • 1 decade ago

    lice or smalllll baby spiders

  • 1 decade ago

    why the hell would you squash them? theyre not harmful....

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