Sound like red spider mites to me.

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2012.html

"Julia DeGraf" wrote in message
...
Ew! I don't know where these came from or what they are. Some Web research
turned up pine leaf scale, and I do have pine leaves nearby, but these
tiny
red bugs are all clustered around the buds of my false sunflower. There
are
millions of them! Does anyone know what they might be? I can post a link
to
a picture, if necessary.

Thanks,
JD