Quick update - the fly traps worked on a few of the fruit flies, but I’ve found that Apple Cider Vinegar + Dish Soap in an open top glass/container, works really well 😊

@torinadrian3241

3 жыл бұрын

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@joaquincannon7898

3 жыл бұрын

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@kieranthomas6489

3 жыл бұрын

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@micahkairo2534

3 жыл бұрын

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@nicholaswesson2103

3 жыл бұрын

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This is a complete nightmare. You are way more calm than I’d be. I’d pack a suitcase, walk out of my house, and toss the mites the keys. It’s their house now.

this makes me wish that geckos were herbivores

@whos_peter_parker4253

3 жыл бұрын

There are some vegetarian geckos!

@markadams5009

3 жыл бұрын

Crested geckos are great, very easy pets. They do fine on crested gecko diet (such as Pangea). You can feed them live insects but you don't have to. Plus some of them will not eat insects regardless.

@Gexkoofficial

3 жыл бұрын

@@markadams5009 thanks mark but i think you've got the wrong thread, i have a gecko mate

@markadams5009

3 жыл бұрын

@@Gexkoofficial I was just commenting on a type of gecko that doesn't have to be fed insects. Sorry didn't know you already had a gecko. I personally have a lepoard gecko and 4 crested geckos. (I keep the mealworms for my lepoard gecko in the refrigerator.)

@Gexkoofficial

3 жыл бұрын

@@mrsb1212 leopard gecko lmao

So sorry this happened to you. Was able to get rid of my wheat mites with lady bugs!

@youzelin1199

3 жыл бұрын

big brain

@user-cm2ev1in7k

3 жыл бұрын

Wait you let them in your house?

@user-cm2ev1in7k

3 жыл бұрын

Idm them actually but like still.

@nurrdy

3 жыл бұрын

@@youzelin1199 actually was my friends idea online some guy said to line the bins with Vaseline and wipe them away twice daily and when I was frustrated with that she recommended lady bugs I had no idea! It worked well too after 2 days and the Vaseline line felt more manageable

@leopardgeckotalk

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks :) I did think about ladybirds, great form of pest control though once the mites are gone they may run out of things to eat lol

I had issues with grain mites after getting mealworms from petsmart. Infested literally everything in a night and couldn’t get rid of them until I got rid of my feeders. Since then, I avoid any type of grain based substrate for my meal worms and super worms

@krys1059

3 жыл бұрын

Curious to know what you use instead

@eddief1111

3 жыл бұрын

@@krys1059 u can microwave oatmeal that kills the eggs just let the oatmeal cool

@AnimalLover1m

3 жыл бұрын

@@krys1059 I just use coconut fiber bedding for worms and beetles and add in veggies. For my crickets I just use paper towels at the moment

@leopardgeckotalk

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah thankfully its been just over 2 weeks since the outbreak and I haven't seen anymore. So I think removing the feeders, getting new ones and keeping the crickets in a cold place has really help minimise the chances of any eggs and mites surviving.

@not_a_monke8086

3 жыл бұрын

@@leopardgeckotalk is it good that my baby leopard gecko let me pick it up within the first week and a half

I had a breakout of the grain mites twice- and it’s worse when you keep your feeder bugs under your bed 😀👍. Microwaving oats before using them prevents the mite eggs from hatching !!

@user-cm2ev1in7k

3 жыл бұрын

I've had 3 infestations but managed to save my colony every time. It must be a nightmare having a colony under your bed and getting mites. I currently have my beetles on my desk under my bed just in case any mites are still in the area they were previously and they get infested again.

@leopardgeckotalk

3 жыл бұрын

ahhh scary! I think I'm just going to avoid oats at all costs now haha stick to what I usually use lol

@katastrofygames

3 жыл бұрын

Since it’s cold where I am right now I’ve left the oats outside from morning to night and that also seems to have done the trick.

Lovely to see you back :) I’m in the UK too and had a reptile room grain mite outbreak a couple weeks back from my dubia roach colony! I emptied it, cleaned the container, replaced all the bedding and food and luckily haven’t had a problem since. It seems that if they don’t have a food source they die off. Hope you don’t have a problem again! :)

Oh god , ive never had these , but now im genuinely terrified for your geckos.

@leopardgeckotalk

3 жыл бұрын

Oh they're fine :) Thankfully these aren't the kind of mites that are interested in harming humans or animals, they just want the grain lol

Yep you have to attack the surfaces every day for a week at least, they are a true nightmare. Now regarding the fruit flies, you have to replace every few days. With the fruit beetle colony they will happily eat fresh fruit so don’t worry about decayed fruit

@leopardgeckotalk

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah the room was getting a deep clean everyday, thankfully I havent seen anymore since and it's just been over 2 weeks. Ah okay. I've been freezing fruit and cutting it up when I need it, but of course it gets quite mushy, but I've now set up a number of different fruit fly traps around the room and I'm seeing less and less. :)

@rcgamer4524

3 жыл бұрын

@@leopardgeckotalk great To hear :-).

Oh no what a nightmare to end a nightmare year :( I'm sorry, hope you guys can get it under control quickly 🙏🤞 Wishing you luck!!

I feel so sorry for you! We had grain mites in October which came from my mealworm oats, I ended up putting all the animals in temp mite-free enclosures, left the mealworms in a tub outside for a week (after changing substrate) and they were fine and hoovering every 2 hours, they love door frames! So I recommend hovering the frames to suck them out of the crevasses. We also deep cleaned the entire room and squished any rouge ones. We found chemicals to be pretty ineffective but nevertheless we got rid of them all in just over a week and haven’t had a problem since! Good luck, they’ll go eventually!!

Thank you! This is a very real worry for me so thanks for showing what to do if they do happen…. *shiver* it’s a risk that I am willing to deal with but yeah. I am so feeling with you and the stresslevels must have gone through the roofs! Hope all of you are okay after this tho ( I am unsure when this video was made as I didn’t check before typing, but I love your videos and how you are showing all sides of reptile owning! Lovely and great work even if I do have some psycosomatic itching going on atm at the mere thought of having other mites than dust mites 🤣

Just got round to watching this and this is exactly like what my room looked like when I had them😭

yooooooo that must have been so upsetting to find.... YUCK! Thanks for sharing & being open & real, I've had grain mites in my Leo's tank before.

I had an infestation of grain mites recently. They came in with my gerbils food

@leopardgeckotalk

3 жыл бұрын

oh no 😬 I was kind of worried about them getting into the guinea pig food, but thankfully we were super careful with anything coming out or going near the reptile room, so i think we've managed to avoid it.

You help so much with my new leopard geckos u gave me so many tips

Aawww. I couldn't go through the trouble to get rid of those mites. I hope the geckos are ok!

@leopardgeckotalk

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, it wasn't what we were expecting to do a couple days before Christmas. We had planned to get the house nice and clean ready for xmas, but this turned into a deep clean. Yes thank you the geckos are doing well, I haven''t seen a single mite on or near them thankfully :)

Saw this on your Instagram. I hope you’ve managed to eradicate the problem! Not nice! Fingers crossed for you! 🤞🏻

I had those! I got ladybugs and they were gone in hours :)

Aw poor you - think looks horrible! I've bookmarked the video for future use in case I need it - lots of helpful tips, thank you :)

Great content

Same thing happened to me last year. I’ve only kept reptiles for about 3 years and had NEVER BEEN WARNED! I will NEVER use oats ever again! At first we had an exterminator come over and he didn’t even know what grain mites were. Since I have birds I couldn’t use bleach in my room, but the mites were in my leopard gecko enclosure, my cornsnake tank, the mealworm bin, and they drank from my fish tank! I had to strip my room and clean all of my pet enclosures except for my bioactive crested gecko tank, the mites never went in it for some reason. I wiped my room down for days and In under a week they were gone. Another reason that having a lot of pets sucks and isn’t for everyone

@leopardgeckotalk

3 жыл бұрын

Absolute nightmare! Yeah I think a while back I stopped using oats because of potential mould build up and oats can be high in phytic acid which isn't great for your geckos - I didn't really know much about grain mites. I only handed maybe a handful or less of oats for my morio worms, and boom, they're everywhere. Crazy.

Thank you so much for this video. I had an infestation a few months back and had no idea what they were! I keep my feeder insects on bug grub as a substrate so I'm guessing this has acted like the oats and provided an ideal habitat for the mites. I'm going to immediately change substrate now to prevent them coming back! For anyone wondering how I got rid of my mites, I moved house (not due to having mites, I'm not a drama queen) and sterilised everything before the move in boiling water and reptile safe disinfectant.

I lLOVE YOUR VIDS YOU HELP ME SOOO MUCH!!!!🤪

With the fruit flies we use misquote traps. They light up with purple light. Once a fly flies in, they get sucked in a fan and get stuck to the sticky pad inside. It worked so well. We got it from Amazon i think

those can also be wood mites. They hitch a ride with the aspen bedding. You will see them gathered around the water bowls in your reptile enclosures. They LOVE water.

I love ur reptiles and videos

Rebecca, make sure that you use wheat bran for worm substrate, as it has more nutritional benefit and it’s easier to microwave or bake to kill mite eggs. :)

I highly suggest the funnel contraption!! When I was young we had fruit fly infestations constantly, thousands at a time because I wasn’t kept in a good living environment. Anyway, we always had them all over the house and they really work! I think they might work a little better than fly tape because the scent attracts them, they assume it’s food instead of just a place they can land. They actually make similar traps in the states in shapes of apples so it’s not so ugly. If you ever get an extreme infestation, they like to land on the ceiling. Weird tip, suck them up with a vacuum nozzle, make sure you cover the nozzle right after though with your hand or else you might have a few escapees!

We've had multiple fruit fly occassions at home. Throw away any leftover fruits/veggies from all tanks and feeders every day (they lay their eggs there). The bottle trick with vinegar inside works wonders btw, I never used the sticky tapes! I put a few drops of dishsoap in there too so they drown instantly instead of floating on the vinegar + I put things like pieces of banana peels as extra to lure them. Good luck!!

the problem I've had every time I tried oats was mold growing good luck on eradicating those pests!

@leopardgeckotalk

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah - damp food+oats+poor ventilation = mould growth. I had the same and quickly removed it all :( such a pain.

@pazbernie4002

8 ай бұрын

How to get Rid of these, What insecticides to use Please help

Hi Rebecca, I got those mites (or similar) ugh!. They spread into all my feeder insect boxes by the time I realised they were there. I got them with a supply of mail ordered feeder insects, I think they actually were in my box of Dendrobea worms. I was horrified, they even crawled onto me. I had to throw all my feeder insects and their substrate etc out, very costly and use really strong F10 solution (F10 was the only thing that got rid of the mites). The mites were in any soil or substrate so that all had to go. The only good thing was my feeders and supplies were kept about 6ft away from my vivs and terrariums. Seeing this video has reminded my I need to move my insects away from my vivariums again (they are temporarily on top of them). So A HUGE THANK YOU for making this video you have reminded me I should move them I had forgotten about that horror.

Ack, mites! That sucks! I wish you luck with getting rid of them!

GOOD LUCK!!🍀

I love your geckos they are so cute. I have watched your videos for a long time and now I am looking into getting a crested gecko, do you have any advice?🐜

Aye they are grain mites, I had them as well. I washed everything and wrapped all the legs of the reptile shelves in tape. I had to cull all my feeder colonys

@leopardgeckotalk

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah absolutely nightmare. .😰

@VenomsDad

3 жыл бұрын

@@leopardgeckotalk yeah it was a pain, it was shocking how many of them just appeared overnight. The tape trick helped, sticky side out.

Oh my gosh girl!! I have the same dang problem and I have NO idea where these damn bugs came from! I have used white vinager and it seems like it helped a bit but they are all over my mice and my hamster and I have NO idea what to do anymore!! I hope this helped for you and you are able to get rid of them. Please keep us updated bc I may have to buy this stuff!!

I recently had an issue with both of these little nuisances. There was a bag of rotten potatoes in the pantry, and a massive swarm of fruit flies attacked the food for my meal worms, crickets, superworms and dubia roaches (mainly apple, carrot and I believe cucumber). I caught nearly 90 of those flies within 4 days of setting apple cider vinegar traps. Then, I had a mite infestation (obviously they were just the nuisance kind and not the blood sucking kind. Otherwise I wouldn't have any insects). I changed out all of the bedding, limited food and had the containers stay dry. Within a week, all of the mites were gone. So yeah. I'm nuisance bug free and both of my geckos couldn't care less as to why I had freaked out

here beforee 100 views :00 love your videos!

If you still want to use the fly trap kit you could try to cut pieces of the normal sticky strips and stick them to the other ones that didn't work.

That looks fun.

Omg I’m glad I watched this. I just looked through my meal worm colony and they’re in there every where!

Got the same problem yesterday, luckily I was able to recognise them because I'd watched this video before. I very tediously removed all feeder insects from their homes and put them in new containers, being extra careful that no mites got in (except the fruit flies, I just took a few to stage a new colony and got rid of the rest) and washed out their containers with hot water. Luckily they mostly stayed contained to just that area, with just a couple stragglers, so I sprayed it all down with hot water and then tea tree oil to kill them and the eggs. Also ordered some ladybugs in case things get out of control, and brought in my dehumidifier. Winter is nearing fast too so I'm keeping my heater off for cold temperatures. Wish me luck.

My house was also infested with fruit flies but they left for the most part

@beanythompson1460

3 жыл бұрын

It took me forever to get rid of fruit flies i don't even know what they were thriving off of because I tried to kill them multiple times and had nothing they could eat

@leopardgeckotalk

3 жыл бұрын

Oh no. Well glad they left :) Its difficult because I have to keep providing decaying fruit for the beetles, so the flies love that.

@lowk3yl0ki98

3 жыл бұрын

@@leopardgeckotalk yeah they were annoying because they would bite and were always around our fruits. Btw I got merch

Aw so sorry this happened 😕 really hope its sorted now & those pesky intruders are gone 🤞😁

I had these! I soaked all the mealworm containers and all other surfaces in vinegar, rinsed off the worms (lol) and now I put my oats in the freezer for a long time before putting it with my insects.

That jar fruit trap works great

Am I in school? Yes. Do I care? No. Will you learn more from this video than school? YES! Great video:)

@massimotrento3498

3 жыл бұрын

lol same

@CadenKunich

3 жыл бұрын

@@massimotrento3498 lol

@massimotrento3498

3 жыл бұрын

@@CadenKunich BN+SS If ya know what I mean

@CadenKunich

3 жыл бұрын

@@massimotrento3498 OMG yes lol

Literally just went around my house panicking afraid I might have mites too 😅 I’m already a paranoid and very anxious person so that’s great 🥲

@beanythompson1460

3 жыл бұрын

They're fairly easy to kill just annoying so I wouldn't worry too much and if one day you end up with an infestation and are unable to identify the type of mite quarantine any pets and clean the room with white vinegar and vacuum the floors and you'll probably be just fine

@emma6515

3 жыл бұрын

@@beanythompson1460 thank you so much! You have no idea how reassuring that is ☺️

yeah i just a couple months ago got a breeding pair of P. muelleri rainbow beetles... that banana caused a fly infestation in a week XD. FYI i love your sun beetles and their setup, definately a goal for me at some point!

Hey, I’ve noticed mites inside my gecko terrarium and on the outside and I’m freaking out about it (nowhere near the amount you had on this video) but I think they are spider mites or something similar and I’m wondering is there anything you’d recommend I can do? (it’s a custom terrarium so I can’t just rip it all out)

I got those sticky pads and they worked SUPER well with our fly I festation

I get them all the time when I feed my mealworms or get new ones from the pet store. (I keep them in oatmeal). The best way to get rid of them is to lower humidity and heat. Cool dry places kill them super quick and moving any food sources away to cold dry areas helps.

@nightinggale6470

3 жыл бұрын

Oats contain phytic acid which binds calcium, so they’re not the best substrate. Dry soil is better

This happened to me almost a year ago now, with grain mites. It was a NIGHTMARE! I literally had to throw my entire kitchen table and chairs away, cause I’d wipe it down and within an hour, the table would be covered again. I then cleaned the entire table, top to bottom, thinking that would help. I did this several times. An hour later, the same thing happened. It was then I’d realized they’d set up in every little crevice on the table. 🤦🏻‍♀️ So we threw the whole thing out. The mites came from crickets I purchased. I’ve also had a fruit fly infestation. Those aren’t fun either, but I’ll gladly take those over the mites any day! The Apple Cider Vinegar, Water and Dawn mixture works very well!

You mentioning fungus gnats made me google what those are and now I know the flies I have are fungus gnats. They infested my cornsnake tank and I suspect they came from a new plant I introduced into the tank. So annoying!

OMG! This video made me itch all over. LOL but what I wanted to say was this, I once had a infestation of the mites that came from my superworms or Mario worms as you called them across the pond. I keep them in a glass jar with a glass lid and the substrate I put in was superworm bedding which I think is ground oats if I remember correctly and luckily for me I caught them and they were contained in that jar so I did not get the infestation that you have and I was easily able to Raticate it. The other thing about the little flying bugs is yours maybe fruit flies but I got an infestation just recently of the little black gnats that come from the Coco fiber and potting soil I use for my substrate. It was horrendous! I tried everything, traps and the like and those long sticky sticky tape that you used. No effect, they avoided them like the plague. However I have recently come across those little yellow stickies like you got that you said had no luck with and mine are just covered with these things. So I open the bedroom window put in a box fan and flushed all the flies outside and then I put the yellow stickies in various places and I am catching all of the rest of them. So what worked for you did not work for me and what worked for me did not work for you LOL. I wish you the best of luck.

I remember a video of your beetles mating etc and you found these in the bio soil and was worried about it spreading to other bio enclosures.

I had some mites before it was horrible. I got them from my meal worm container that I had for years. It was from the heat going into my meal container from a lamp.

apple cider vinegar in a cup with a drop of dawn dish soap and then the paper cone works MAGIC

I had an infestation of mites in my mealworm colony a few days ago but i found it beforeit spread to my room. They are very annoying. Im sorry this happened to you. Controlling it is a nightmare, i know how you feel... now im more scared of them happening as i have a hamster plus my crested gecko.

I'm dealing with fruit flies at the moment, feels like it's never ending! That's the problem with having 2 crested geckos, plus 4 guinea pigs, a hamster, and my leopard gecko's bugs all eating fruit and veg! 😅

@keinPlan792

3 жыл бұрын

You should get a small glass that you fill halfway with vinegar and cover it with cling film. Then make some small-ish holes in the cling film. The fruit flys will fly in but never find there way out. Works well for me!

This is when you realize gecko's food must not be neglicted at any point. I am not saying that you just didn't cared it's just you didn't had luck

@leopardgeckotalk

3 жыл бұрын

I mean I remove old food every other day, I've never had a problem like this in the 14 years of owning geckos, I think it was reintroducing oats and accidentally creating the ideal conditions for the eggs to hatch and a population to explode.

I had this happen to me. They came from my beardies mealworms. I basically took a wet wipe and wiped the mites up (luckily they didn’t get in the tank) and then threw away the container. Then wiped everything nearby down and luckily I haven’t seen any recently.

I'm late but I subbed to help get rid of the bugs😭

You always upload while I’m at school 🤔I’m still gonna watch it tho

@bennyy8036

3 жыл бұрын

Auh naughty🙃

@leopardgeckotalk

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, I upload at the same time each week lol

Hey great video I’m having the same problem I think ,y Mario worms I bought have come with the mites 😔 did you manage to get them away ? I was looking at trying the app cider vinegar trick,as you did in the video on top of cleaning is the finger worth doing did they help? Thank you for the advice 😊

could you do a video on feeder insect substrate

Sooooooooooooooooooooooooo cute!

Oh no what a pain...I'm so sorry😭😭

I used to get this all the time with my mealworm breeding colonies so it’s probably from them, they looked identical to what you have

What do you use for your morio worms? I use oats and so far have had no problems, but if I do I'd like to have a backup plan. Thank you.

I had grain mites once, I rinsed the beetles and worms off gently and replaced the bin and substrate

I'm so sorry you have to deal with this

I had and have still the same infestation problem.

I had grain mites recently too. I have gotten rid of them almost entirely by removing oats from my feeder bugs, cleaning their bins, and wiping down surfaces. But mine didn't seem as extensive as yours at least not outside of the feeder containers.

@leopardgeckotalk

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I think getting rid of the feeders helped a lot. :)

In the beginning of the video: Crested gecko owners: ha ha ha! 4:25 Crested gecko owners: oh:(

@user-cm2ev1in7k

3 жыл бұрын

Idk why but when my gecko enclosure was directly next to the mite infestation it wasn't really affected. Maybe one or two mites on the enclosure glass. However my lighting fixture was a whole different story... it was covered in them and I was disguised to touch that thing. I had to wipe it down every day

@leopardgeckotalk

3 жыл бұрын

thankfully I haven't seen any mites near them :)

That sucks I'm so sorry for you

I had grain mites once in my bioactive tank. They just disappeared on their own so I hope that gives you hope. Try not feeding powdered gecko diet for a while. That's what they feed on inside the tanks I think.

You sound like your about to have a panic attack so don’t I love your videos

wow i literally got rid of every breeding setup yesterday because of mites! Its the second time it has happen and I just give up... its not worth the trouble, might as well just buy feeders when I need them.

mold mites i got same issues they love electrical stuff too

It is from the crickets !!! Happen to me 3 time last yr. Petco crickets

If this happens often maybe try getting butterwort plants. They do act like flypaper.

We just having this mite issue we had to throw away my Mario and meal worms, spent that last two days cleaning going to use your trap. any update on how you have gotten on?

Do u do custom bioactive tanks for leoperd geckos

@LeopardGecko Grain mites aren’t harmful to anything other than my sanity lol, I’ve thrown out more old insect feeder breeding racks than I care to talk about. First thing to know about mites is they hate citrus and more importantly citric acid. Put some citrus fruits in with the crickets and that should get rid of the mites in their container and give the crickets a good snack. For the wall get some citrus oil and some rubbing alcohol/white vinegar And spray it on a rag and wipe them up. For the enclosures you can take a lemon wedge and wipe it on the edges of the tank doors and edges of the tanks to keep the mites away. You can also mix some pet safe tank cleaner and mix with a small amount of lemon juice for the mites in any enclosures. For fruit flies get a empty water bottle and mix some fruit scented dish soap with warm water and vinegar and shake to make a foam on top. The mix will smell like spoiled fruit to the flies and they will die once they get stuck on the foam. For use with predatory mites. They work well... almost too well if they get in one of your bio setups they will eat all the springtails and baby isopods. So if you use them just be careful.

I had a mite infestation from flour i think, they were everywhere in the pantry, and then decided to infest my bedroom! They were a nightmare, but after wiping the surfaces they were on they just left, I still find a mite or two in boxes and that

@kzcb9630

2 жыл бұрын

What chemicals did you use that worked for you?

We caught fruit flies in jars by putting fruit in the jar and putting cling wrap on top and poking very small holes in it with a needle.

Reminds me of when my chickens got mites and they got into the house.. ended up spraying room in woodworm treatment to kill them off 😬😱

What temperature can crickets be kept in to avoid mites yet not kill them? I keep my feeder insects in our reptile room, want to move them to our basement but its colder down there

My Leo's crickets escaped yesterday and they were a pain to find so I cant imagine how hard this was to clear out😬😬😬

@ryanballard8545

3 жыл бұрын

I tried keeping locusts but they were too big for her because she is only a baby

I had an infestation of them in the summer. They got into every single thing and I had to clean all of my feeder cages. The main problem I had is that it infested and they were breeding in my 18L water container I had. Once I got rid of that and vacuumed every day, my problem was gone in a week

This just happened to me! Any new grain I've been baking because that kills eggs and stuff. I've also been lining my feeder boxes with Vaseline so the mites can't escape whatever box they come from. I don't think they're harmful to our reptiles though!

What do you usually use as bedding for your feeders

Just woke up with these all on my Savannah monitor tank

How did you get rid of the fungus gnat problem??? I’m trying to make my biotamk and last time they infested my tank.

Sorry about the mites, but I wanted to know where you got the large rocks in your gecko’s tank?

Did you solve the mold mites? I have duiba roaches and they are getting in my bins.

The same thing happened to the crickets I had. White mites came of them.

Omg 😱 first I saw mine on TV remote control n I checked again they’re everywhere..pls tell me did you get rid all of them