White Bugs In Soil Houseplant

The small styrofoam-like particles in your potting soil are a mineral called perlite. It's made when lava rock from volcanoes cools, trapping tiny quantities of moisture inside.

Are soil mites good?

Very simply put, soil mites are beneficial arthropods (related to spiders and ticks) performing the very important task of helping breakdown organic matter such as leaf litter, fungus, algae, and other naturally occurring substances in the soil.

Can soil mites live on humans?

Fortunately, the mites cannot live on humans, do not survive indoors, and are not known to transmit disease.