Insect and Spider Identification: Very tiny bugs in container of oatmeal packets, 5 by emblue

emblue wrote:
Location: Southeastern Pennsylvania, USA.

Found these crawling around in a container of instant oatmeal packets that haven\'t been opened in a LONG time. They traveled with the person who eats the oatmeal -- he went all over the place (possibly around the country) with them a few years back. But they\'ve been in a plastic container here for years, probably. (Very very rarely opened.)

Was doing a kitchen cleanup to explore for pantry moths (they\'ve been around recently) and I found these instead. (Yay me.)

I tried taking photos and videos -- they looked better on my phone screen. Not opening up the trash bag to try again, so hopefully there\'s some indicator here to help ID them.

I have a video with 4 or 5 segments (from different packets). I could share that somehow if that would help?

They were VERY tiny. Like smaller a poppy seed, I think.

They were moving very fast. Some looked brown, some looked ivory/beige.

Any ideas?

Thank you!

ETA: Here\'s a link to the videos: [HYPERLINK@imgur.com]

This message was edited Apr 24, 2025 5:52 PM