Should I look into pest control?

I am a real novice here, and I really hope someone can help me understand what I'm doing...

I planted a seed card and I have a sprout or two. The plant next to it has a bunch of white flecks in it that look like eggs to me. I also saw some very small bugs in the other plant. While I see similar flecks in the seed-card plant, I'm not sure if these are bug eggs or part of the potting mix I bought (Miracle Gro). It's been raining a lot lately here in South Florida, so maybe it's spawning pests? Should I look into a pesticide or something? I don't want bugs eating my sproutlings.

As a side note, I expected more plants from a seed card, yet I only have two sprouts. Does anybody know why this is? Did I plant them too deep, or water it too heavily?

I looked in my bag of Miracle Gro, and did not see anywhere near as many white things (usually perlite) as are in your pictures. Do you still have the bag with some soil you have not used? Does it have lots of white things?

Reasons for few seeds to grow:

1) Old seeds. Package should be labeled with a date. Get the freshest ones.
2) Over or under watering. This is a tricky one. Seeds need plenty of moisture, but too much can encourage fungi.
3) Wrong temperature. Seeds of plants that thrive in the heat usually need quite a warm location to sprout. They will just sit there in cool soil.
4) Buried too deep.

If I were you I would pick up one or two of the white things your talking about, squese between finger and thumb and if moisture if freed from the thing, it's a bug's egg and if it's dry powdery it added plant food , perlite just flattens as it's supposed to allow air into the soil and help with drainage.
The most common bug that lays little white ball type eggs is slugs / snails, they are normally laid in small clusters, once the parent lays these eggs they are off and dont come back to the eggs, I gather them up and put them on a trasy or into the bird table and the birds devour them.

I would NOT plant any seeds, baby plantlet's or other very tender soft plant material into Miracle grow or add any type of feed, seeds hold within all the energy needed to germinate, once the plants get growing they use up their own reserve and when planted out into growing position or into pot's, thats early enough to be adding helpful nutrients to amend the growing medium.
Never use more store bought additives to your soil than the doze stated per yard etc, as too much feeding causes root burn or makes the plant die from over exposure to chemicals which in turn stop the plants from performing well as the roots can shut down and just cause the plants to perish.

Here in my garden /greenhouse for all seeds and pricking out of the seeds, I use store bought compost special mixture for seeds or potted plants depending what I'm sewing and the reason for that cost is because the store bought compost is already sterilized therefore free of disease so any problem there after is due to my own watering, temp, sewing too close and this allows damping off mould that kills off seedlings almost in an hour, I am sure there will be many that will disagree with my thoughts on adding feeds to seed growing but I can only give the views and proven experiences I know and have had passed down to me from previous generations of gardeners who could not pay the cost of all the additional soil amendments as we just made home made compost and used animal manures when the plants got going or it was added at soil prep time knowing that all plants dont like freshly manured soil.
You just learn that as you gain experience or as in this site, different folks have different ideas and if it works for them we need to try it out and adapt things to our own needs.
Hope this gives you some ideas to help you out
Good luck WeeNel..

Is that material in a container or in the ground?

With as much rain as Boca has gotten over the past few days, if in a container, then the white could very well be perlite. Containers sitting out in heavy rain with light weight soil will often fill with water faster than it can drain away, causing the lighter peat and perlite to percolate to the surface. Also, I have had heavy rain wash tiny seedlings right out of the soil and over the rim of the pot.

If I remember correctly, So Florida has gotten about 15 inches of rain since Tuesday. That might wash away tiny plant seedlings from the ground also.

It is in a container. I'm beginning to think that it's not eggs, since they are pretty evenly distributed. It is probably surfacing perlite, as you say. I haven't seen any bugs and the sprouts seem to be thriving.