Question about bedding, mites possibly?

[SweetPete7]

I ordered Cypress bedding from turtlesupply.com and it arrived in a box. . . .I put it in Sonne's enclosure, where there are several forms of substrate (sand, sphagnum moss, fake grass) and upon moving around the cypress area (to situate my food dish) it looked as though the small chunks of wood were JUMPING (gasp). . . .? I'm assuming this is not normal. . . .does cypress bedding often harbor parasites? are they mites?
Pete

 

[Greg T]

I'm not really sure where they come from, but I have also found some small jumping bugs in my enclosures where I used cypress mulch and dirt. They didn't seem to bother the torts, but I wasn't sure how to get rid of them either. I hope someone can give us some helpful hints on these things before I have to bring mine back in for winter.