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pests More insects...but what are they this time? (warning, images of squished bugs...do not open if of a

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Finding these ones under the plant pots so largely in the soil, but they're too fast, all I can get is a microscope photo of a squished one! 
 
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edit - found another! 
 
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To put a scale on them, they're about 1.5mm and they run quite fast. And most certainly aren't thrips today, although they are around the same size as thrips. 
 
Any ideas?? I wouldn't know where to start..how do you decide if they're beneficial, nasty or neutral?
 
[Beginning to think I should never have bought that microscope...]
 
geeme said:
My first thought was termites. Look here: http://www.buglogical.com/index.php?p=catalog&parent=1&pg=1
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They do a bit, don't they. But we don't get those in the UK, or at least, very rarely....
Wahey - an answer from your termite idea, I googled "insects that look like termites" and found the answer in the oddest fashion.
 

Psocoptera aka booklouse
 
They eat bark so that'll be why they're in my compost. 
 
Still, I don't want them in the house...the joys of growing indoors eh. 
 
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