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It's another #Arachtober #MiteMonday! Here's a whirligig mite (family Anystidae) cleaning its feet. Warning: handheld video! I was able to stabilize it a bit but the camera still moves around.
#ArthroBeauty #DailyMiteVid #Mitestodon #mites #Acari #Acariformes #Prostigmata #Anystidae
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Whirligig mite tug-of-war commenced. (2/2)
#DailyMiteVid #Mitestodon #mites #Acari #Acariformes #Anystidae
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#DailyMiteVid: whirligig mites (family Anystidae) are happy to eat each other, as you can see from this clip filmed today. I noticed that the mite being eaten seemed to still be alive and moving its limbs; it was only on re-watching the video that I realized it seemed to be cleaning one of its legs!
CW: slightly shaky video moving in & out of focus; mite being altogether too chill about being devoured alive by its fellow
#Mitestodon #MiteBehaviour #mites #Acari #Acariformes #Anystidae
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The sidewalk mites (_Balaustium_) that swarm over the ground this time of year primarily eat pollen, but they will also scavenge dead bugs (I do not think they are actually predatory). This horde has found an ant pupa, I think?
I am fascinated by this behaviour and try to catch it at least once every summer.
#DailyMiteVid #Mitestodon #MiteBehaviour #arachnids #mites #Acari #Acariformes #Parasitengona #Erythraeidae
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#MiteMonday: ever look down and see a bunch of little red guys on the pavement or whatever? Chances are they're long-legged velvet mites (family Erythraeidae) in the genus _Balaustium_. Practically all of their relatives are parasitic on other arthropods as larvae and predatory as adults, but some common _Balaustium_ species are lifelong pollen-eaters. Here's one eating peony pollen I put down.
#DailyMiteVid #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Acariformes #Parasitengona #Erythraeidae
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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.
#DailyMiteVid #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acariformes #Bdellidae #Oribatida
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Flipped over a piece of log on a big dead stump and there were tons of those little iridescent blue-purple springtails, but also several mesostigs. I was watching them hoping one would catch a springtail, and one seemed to be questing about for something. Then it chased after one of the other mites, flung itself on its back, and after some tumbling around ended up clinging to its underside. Then, this. I'm not even sure what's happening, I don't even know what appendages these mites use for sperm transfer.
edit: oh yeah I forgot to add they're totally having sex
#DailyMiteVid #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #MiteBehaviour #Acari #Mesostigmata
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10 seconds of mite sex why not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#DailyMiteVid #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #MiteBehaviour • #Acari #Acariformes #Acaridae
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I can't even wait for #MiteMonday, this is too exciting, I have to share it now!!!
In Walter & Proctor's _Mites: Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour: Life at a Microscale_, there's this great image of mites in the family Acaridae mating, with the male facing backwards and his aedeagus (dick) inserted into the female's dorsal copulatory opening (bussy [back pussy]), so he is carried along on her back, a bit like a wheelbarrow race, but backwards.
Anyway this evening I was idly taking macro of the mites in the fruit fly culture when I SAW IT. It's easier to make out with video.
marked nsfw for graphic photos and videos of mite sex, you were warned
#Mitestodon #DailyMiteVid #arachnids #mites #MiteBehaviour • #Acari #Acariformes #Acaridae
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#Arachtober 28: the last #MiteMonday of Arachtober! On a rock teeming with clover mites I found several of their frequent predators, whirligig mites (family Anystidae). This one was busy cleaning its feet.
#DailyMiteVid #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites • #Acari #Acariformes #Anystidae
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#MiteMonday: meet _Podocinum_! Found several of these tiny predatory fellows under a rock, feeling their way around with their long, thin front legs tipped with forked hairs, a little reminiscent of a pseudoscorpion's claws. However they are dwarfed by even the small pseudoscorpions in my garden.
#DailyMiteVid #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Podocinidae
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#MiteMonday: your regular dose of sumo mite shenanigans.
I think the larger one may be a female? The aggressive mites don't try to fight it.
#DailyMiteVid #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Trombidiidae #Allothrombium
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#MiteMonday: a red velvet mite, knocked over and playing dead, slowly uncurls. I just think this is too cute.
Marked sensitive because the video is kind of shaky at the start, in case anyone else is prone to vertigo with shaky videos like me.
#DailyMiteVid #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Trombidiidae #Allothrombium
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it's over anakin, i have the high ground
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Saturday night's all right for (sumo mite) fighting
edit: you can also see much smaller clover mites (_Bryobia_) moving around in the periphery. They are the bluish ones with threadlike pink-orange legs. That is their full size. For comparison, the sumo mites are like 4mm tops?
#DailyMiteVid #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Trombidiidae #Allothrombium #MiteBehaviour
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That Lady and the Tramp scene with the spaghetti, but it's these sumo mites (_Allothrombium_) feeding on a dead midge (family Chironomidae).
Also later they started fighting, but I'm not sure if they were fighting over the midge or just regular sumo mite fighting.
#DailyMiteVid #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Trombidiidae #Allothrombium #MiteBehaviour
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The sumo mites (_Allothrombium_) are out and wrestling!!!
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#MiteMonday × #LichenSubscribe: on a warm (~5°C+) winter day, tiny clover mites (_Bryobia_) stream up and down a lichen-covered tree trunk.
#DailyMiteVid #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #CloverMites #Acari #Tetranychidae #Bryobiinae
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Miracle of miracles, found a slow-moving mesostig under a log at the park.
#DailyMiteVid #MiteMonday #Mitestodon #bugstodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Mesostigmata
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#Arachtober 30: one last Arachtober anystid. Warning: kind of shaky/jerky video, so be careful watching if you (like me) sometimes get vertigo from this kind of thing.
Technical note: this video was originally 1080×1080 px and 56 MB. Resized it to 500×500 with ezgif (https://ezgif.com/resize-video) and it's under 5 MB!
#DailyMiteVid #Mitestodon #MiteMonday #arachnids #mites #Acari #Anystidae
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back on my bullshit (filming whirligig mites)
this one briefly stopped to groom its leg before zooming off. they always act like staying in one spot for 5 seconds is an impossible ordeal.
#DailyMiteVid #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Anystidae #MiteBehaviour
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Taken solstice day down by the lake. I watched these sidewalk mites chasing each other away from a dead midge, until only one was left still feeding—at which point it and the midge were blown away in the breeze.
As I've previously mentioned, try putting "Yakety Sax" on in the background for the full comedic effect.
YouTube version (HD, with sound, not that it makes a huge difference): https://youtu.be/00a92QNqY4g
#DailyMiteVid #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Erythraeidae #MiteBehaviour #macro
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Not quite in time for #MiteMonday: here's some video I took a few weeks back of a frenzied horde of sidewalk mites (_Balaustium_) feeding on some bit of dead bug/plant stuff. I highly suggest playing "Yakety Sax" in the background while you watch this. https://youtu.be/RU5aZOqWhus
#DailyMiteVid #Mitestodon #mites #Acari #Erythraeidae #macro
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For this #MiteMonday: while watching the vast clover mite rookeries, I saw tiny juvenile whirligig mites racing around, feeding on the eggs right under the clover mites' noses!
#MiteBehaviour, especially between different taxa, is endlessly fascinating to me (as you may have guessed.)
#DailyMiteVid #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Anystidae #Tetranychidae #Bryobiinae #macro
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New video: 1 minute of a clover mite rookery on a tree trunk! Adults feeling their way around by tapping their long legs; clusters of shiny dark-red eggs; the white husks of cast-off old molts.
These mites are so tiny (<1mm) that despite their vast numbers they easily pass unnoticed.
#DailyMiteVid #Mitestodon #mites #Acari #Tetranychidae #Bryobiinae #Bryobia
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the perils of being a sumo mite
#DailyMiteVid #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Trombidiidae #Allothrombium #sumo #macro
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This one red velvet mite was very interested in a small insect pupa of some kind. https://youtu.be/TxRUAw3pqkA
#DailyMitePic #DailyMiteVid #Mitestodon #mites #Acari #Trombidiidae #Allothrombium #RedVelvetMites #macro
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Enjoy 1:45 of red velvet mites (Trombidiidae) bumbling around in the leaf litter while a band jams in the background and _Lasius_(?) ants industriously excavate.
#DailyMitePic #DailyMiteVid #Mitestodon #mites #Acari #Trombidiidae #Allothrombium #RedVelvetMites #macro