huge charcoal furnace mites

[Guest guest]

We had a furnace replaced years ago and something came out of the

ventilation system that looked like SOFT charcoal colored balls, some

an eighth of an inch in diameter. At that time I had no microscopes and

collected no samples. These suckers bit, big time, but I don't know to

this day if they were dust mites or something else. Or if they are one

of the critters that still beseiges me. I do quite often see things

that look like them but when I see them under the 'scope they look like

a bundle of cut black threads, except for the light beige organic

matter in the middle, and the cilia on the end of some of their many

legs. I am not sure if these are the same as the egg shaped ones that

develop the two pointed swords like catfish get, then develop all the

spaghetti legs too, or not. Of course the ones that I could see with

the naked eye that came out of the heater could all have been adults,

and thus all the same stage of life, with the same basic appearance,

except for size. Anyone else got any clues on these?

katiejill