#oribatida — Public Fediverse posts

#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

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

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

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

#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

Just a couple of oribatid mites under a rock in the garden…Galumnoidea, perhaps?

#Mitestodon #mites #arachnids #Arthropoda #Arachnida #Acari #Oribatida #Galumnidae

#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

the crushing disappointment when you think you've found a bunch of big juicy mites and it's just some fucking beetles. no offence beetle people.

(there was one mite tho)

#insects #arthropods #Coleoptera #beetles #mites #Oribatida

Here's an un-cropped version of the above pic that shows just how small those beetle mites are. #lichen #Oribatida #GraffitiLichen #nature #LichenSubscribe

@nev Did you know that somebody is selling Conoppia palmicinctum stickers? #Oribatida #mites

https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Copy-of-Ernst-Haeckel-Tereticepheus-palmicinctum-by-leeannelowe/38632351.EJUG5