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Tiny White Bugs in Clothes: Not Spider Mites

Submit Specimens to Public Health or Extension for ID

Spider mites don’t live in clothes or bite humans. These could be rodent mites, bird mites, or other parasites. Place specimens on tape and take to county health department or university extension for microscopic ID. Treatment depends on correct identification.

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