RE: help us! freaky white bugs in my soil!
I'd love to help, but I can't see the video for some reason. I really really really hate using harsh chemicals, should be your very last resort. Some bugs are actually beneficial, wish I could see! In any case, one thing you can do right now that will contain the issue if to dress the top soil with an inch or two of washed sand, expanded clay pebbles, perlite or my favourite - growstones (recycled glass), or something similar, even lots of regular rock pebbles. Soil bugs lay their eggs on the first inches of moist soil, so the idea is to create a dry layer where eggs won't thrive and hatch, and bugs need to go way too deep to reproduce and most wont make it. You will also want to bottom feed to help keep the top soil as dry as possible. Add lots of yellow sticky traps too to catch them.
Cool, thanks for the info. If you're worried about the "harsh chemicals" mentioned above, it appears to be a solution of 5% sesame oil and the rest is mainly water. I don't think that's harsh.
But anyway, I'm going to do the sticky traps, and I'll look into some sort of cover material.
Somebody mentioned diatomaceous earth.... or is that only for other pests?
That will work, it softens and even destroys the exoskeleton of bugs. my only problem with it is that is very powdery, like crumbled chalk. So if you top water, it will become a paste. But great to mix into the soil, as it is a great source for silica. Check out organic pesticides based on Spinosads. Very effective