2 Tiny bugs - one pink and one white

First the pink one: I'll link to a picture and a video of it. It is pale pink or tan, round body, long legs for its body, it looks moreso at the front. They crawl around in the soil and I've found them up the sides of the plastic container too. They're pretty slow moving but so tiny it's hard to kill.

picture: http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn67/Hosenozzle/SoilBugs001.jpg
video: http://s301.photobucket.com/albums/nn67/Hosenozzle/?action=view¤t=SoilBugs002-1.mp4

The white one is also tiny, but long and thin. When it crawls around the soil, it gets quite bendy and quick. It jumps too (it might actually be teleporting but I can't be sure). They only seem to come out when I dig around in the soil, and it seems they're more populated around seedlings. The picture catches it in decent detail.

I've had a lot of problems considering all of my planters are new and indoors, and using potting soil. I also have fungus gnats which I'm almost getting under control with sticky traps, and chamomile/cinnamon watering.

Are either of these bugs beneficial? Please say yes because I'm sick of fighting bugs! I have these 2 in a couple of the planters, and none in the others using the same soil. For the one, I was able to take the seedlings out, put the soil in a freezer bag, microwave it a little, and replant, and it worked very well. But I can't do that for the other two.

Worn and forlorn,
Blake

Does the white one curl its rear up? If so, they may be thrips.
It's hard for me to tell in the picture, and video
And compare your pink ones to spider mites and see what you think?
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I googled spider mite images, but the colours don't look right. It doesn't have dark patches nor is it red. But I found this page in the search results that looks like it: http://www.natural-insect-control.com/product.php?id=000000301

And it's considered a mite predator! I hope it's that.

I read a page about thrips and it scared me. They sound awful! Some of the thrip pictures have them dark, maybe as an adult. But I never see any that look like that-- omg it just dawned on me. The fungus gnats are actually adult thrips!

This message was edited Apr 26, 2011 9:08 AM

ON SECOND THOUGHT..

I took a picture of a big one of the adult ones that fly, and it doesn't look like a thrip after all. it has the big round wings of a fungus gnat, and only 2 wings instead of a Thrip's 4 wings. Actually it looks very much like a fungus gnat, but every picture I find has them with antennae on their head and this one definitely does not. Here is a picture of one I killed yet still in good shape, minus its wings.

The other ones I've found do have antennae, so I think the adults are fungus gnats. But all the pictures I've seen of larvae and pupa don't look like the tiny white bugs.

I have found them in my bag of Scott's potting soil too, but not fungus gnats in there. Maybe I do have 3 bugs instead of 2.