1 Steve: Right, now we just have to find some of those mites, and I'll teach 'em a lesson!
2 Terry: You really think wrestling a few mites will teach all of them not to bother bees any more?
3 Terry: They'd have to communicate and have a sense of self-awareness.
4 Terry: They're just mindless arachnids!
4 Jane Goodall: Look. Mite runes.

I almost made the mistake of having Terry call the mites "mindless insects", but that very phrase triggered warning bells in my mind and I was wary enough to check. Mites are indeed arachnids, members of the eight-legged arthropod class that includes spiders, scorpions, ticks, and a few other weird critters.

Interestingly, the spider-like animals we commonly know as "daddy-longlegs" are not spiders. They are part of a distinct order of arachnids called Opiliones, whereas spiders are of the order Araneae.