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Has #WeevilWednesday come early? No, it's #MiteMonday! These snout mites (family Bdellidae) must need moisture as I usually only see them in damp places and right after it rains. They are predatory, and about the same size as sidewalk mites (_Balaustium_, family Erythraeidae).

#DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #SnoutMites #Acari #Acariformes #Prostigmata #Bdellidae

Has #WeevilWednesday come early? No, it's #MiteMonday! These snout mites (family Bdellidae) must need moisture as I usually only see them in damp places and right after it rains. They are predatory, and about the same size as sidewalk mites (_Balaustium_, family Erythraeidae).

#DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #SnoutMites #Acari #Acariformes #Prostigmata #Bdellidae

Has #WeevilWednesday come early? No, it's #MiteMonday! These snout mites (family Bdellidae) must need moisture as I usually only see them in damp places and right after it rains. They are predatory, and about the same size as sidewalk mites (_Balaustium_, family Erythraeidae).

#DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #SnoutMites #Acari #Acariformes #Prostigmata #Bdellidae

Has #WeevilWednesday come early? No, it's #MiteMonday! These snout mites (family Bdellidae) must need moisture as I usually only see them in damp places and right after it rains. They are predatory, and about the same size as sidewalk mites (_Balaustium_, family Erythraeidae).

#DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #SnoutMites #Acari #Acariformes #Prostigmata #Bdellidae

#Arachtober 20: a tiny oribatid or beetle mite, likely suborder Mixonomata (https://bugguide.net/node/view/238862), ubiquitous dwellers of soil and leaf litter, armoured decomposers.

#ArthroBeauty #MiteMonday #DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #mites #Acari #Oribatida #Mixonomata

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

#DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Bdellidae #Oribatida

Good lake visit today

1. Scenery
2. The _Bryobia_ clover mites are loving the warm weather.
3. A linyphiid, I think? Else a theridiid?
4. A slow-moving (for once) lithobiomorph centipede.

#DailySpiderPic #DailyMitePic #SpidersOfMastodon #Mitestodon #bugstodon #arachnids #spiders #mites #centipedes #Araneae #Acari #Myriapoda

#Arachtober 19: this cute little oribatid (found on a rotting log) seemed to have ladybug-like spots. These widespread and abundant detritus- and fungus-eating soil dwellers are sometimes called "beetle mites" because of their hard carapaces.

#DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Oribatida #macro

Kicking off #InverteFest with a galumnoid oribatid from my garden!

:inaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.ca/observations/156463966

#DailyMitePic #MiteMonday #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Oribatida #macro

For #MiteMonday, here's a little oribatid I found under the bark of a rotting log in a very wet meadow. Unlike the poppyseed-like galumnoids I've posted before, this one has a clear division between head and abdomen. It would be serendipitous if it were a ptyctimous mite, as a new catalogue of this group was just published: https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5265.1.1

:inaturalist: https://inaturalist.ca/observations/155850533

#DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Oribatida

#MiteMonday: a little oribatid from my recent High Park outing. Oribatids are abundant soil-dwelling detritivores and fungivores, sometimes called "beetle mites" because of their hard, shiny shells.

#DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #mites #Acari #Oribatida