Scientific Name: Phytoseiulus persimilis Athias-Henriot
Common Name: Carmine predator mite
Friend or Pest (or both): Friend.
Region and Diet? It is a cosmopolitan mite that eats other mites and insect pests (and their eggs).
Impact on agriculture? High. Farmers enlist this predator mite as a biocontrol agent to attack and feast on many mites and bugs that destroy strawberries and other crops inside greenhouses and fields. Check out this video from PBS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1XFi9r3dIE&t=37s