#dailymitepic — Public Fediverse posts
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#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
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Anyway, #InternationalRockFlippingDay finds: a vine weevil (*Otiorhynchus* of some kind), and a bryobiine spider mite, see e.g. *Petrobia*.
#bugstodon #DailyMitePic #arachnids #mites #SpiderMites #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Entiminae #Acari #Acariformes #Prostigmata #Tetranychidae #Bryobiinae
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#MiteMonday: checked out my favourite dead logs, got more pictures of mesostigs preying on springtails!!
#DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites • #Acari #Parasitiformes #Mesostigmata #Parasitidae???
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#MiteMonday: snout mite (family Bdellidae) and oribatid mite are friends
#DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Bdellidae #Oribatida
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#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
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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
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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
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#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.