Tan, brown, or black in color. Feed on foliage or flowers. They rasp the tissues and suck plant juices. Springtails Tiny whitish insects jumping on the soil surface. Do no appreciable harm.
Tissues become more or less brittle.
Distortion of buds and flowers. Found on cyclament and African violets. Tiny creatures invisible to the naked eye. These mites suck plant juices. Very small, black flies hovering about the plant.