Garden Pests and Diseases: Friend or Foe?, 0 by Night_Bloom

Night_Bloom wrote:
margu - hmm. How large spidery red things? Larger size and long-shaped, I would guess centipedes (Chilopoda). I don't have a picture of those kind of centipedes unfortunately - they are fast and I usually encounter them when I have gloves on that are covered with dirt (not a camera-friendly situation). If you google centipede and choose the images selection, you might find your guy.

If small and red - like the size of a round-headed pin's head - it might be a predatory or omniverous mite. Picture (a bad one) below. These guys don't stay still either.