Leromeanswered grow question 3 days ago Well, nature does work by diversity and by eating & getting eaten, so if this diversity is missing it is possible for a species to overpopulate, which can be annoying and not in our favour (mites climbing on your plants for example)
You can prevent this by dusting the area around your stem and the stem itself in some diatomaceous earth though. I would not use heavy artillery to get rid of some harmless mites.
Those mites are just decomposers like compost worms, they wont eat your living plants. You can even feed them the dead leaves and theyll turn it into compost.
They can overpopulate though if you feed them a lot of sweet stuff like fruit, so try to keep that down.
Or use that in your favour to attract and remove them with a piece of banana if there are too many or you want to get rid of them.