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#Arachtober 21: dreams can come true (if your dream is finding a snout mite https://flipping.rocks/@nev/115403746846167689)

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And just as I got home I saw a snout mite (family Bdellidae) feeding on a springtail on a patch of lichen, and had to go in and get my light and clip-on lenses to get a proper photo.

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For #MiteMonday: mites eating things.

1. Long-legged velvet mites (family Erythraeidae, probably _Balaustium_) eating a midge
2. A whirligig mite (family Anystidae) eating a globular springtail
3. A snout mite (family Bdellidae) eating a barklouse

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It's still #MiteMonday somewhere…

Vignette from under a log. A snout mite (family Bdellidae) feeds on the remains of a springtail, with a guest appearance from a beetle mite (order? suborder? Oribatida)*.

* Above superfamily or so, mite taxonomic ranks start getting contentious.

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#Arachtober 21: Happy #MiteMonday! Here's a snout mite (family Bdellidae) snacking on a long-legged velvet mite (family Erythraeidae). Taken back in June.

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#MiteMonday: snout mite (family Bdellidae) and oribatid mite are friends

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#MiteMonday × #LichenSubscribe: a snout mite (Bdellidae), a predatory mite, in a lush lichen landscape. I mostly see these mites out and about when it's raining or has just rained; they must like it very humid.

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#MiteMonday: this snout mite (family Bdellidae) I found yesterday looks like it would be peach flavoured. (Note: I did not eat it.)

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#MiteMonday: a snout mite (family Bdellidae) feasting on a midge.

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Let's check in on the local mites.

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#MiteMonday: snout mite (family Bdellidae). Done in #MyPaint.

This isn't a Peppa Pig type thing going on, they really do have two eyes on each side of their head.

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#MiteMonday: a snout mite (family Bdellidae) I found last week on Philosopher's Walk. With their long, pointy "noses" flanked with thin pedipalps, they are the weevils of mites—but unlike weevils, they are predators, not plant-eaters.

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in other news, found bristly millipedes (Polyxenida) and snout mites (Bdellidae) on my building's garden wall and was, unfortunately, very weird about it just as neighbours were coming home

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