Mites on arthropods
Regularly, larger arthropods carry mites around. Often these are phoretic - just hitching a ride to greener pastures. Sometimes the mites attach themselves to suck body fluids from the host, usually for a short time only (one development stage), not killing the host. Much like ticks do on mammals. This list brings together all sorts of images of mites on other arthropods, either phoretic or parasitic or even accidental.
Pudding4brains created this list 4 years ago
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Roundneck Sexton Beetle - Nicrophorus orbicollis -
Roundneck Sexton Beetle - Nicrophorus orbicollis -
Nicrophorus orbicollis -
Nicrophorus vespilloides -
Nicrophorus vespilloides -
Nicrophorus vespilloides -
Longhorn Beetles with Parasites -
Dock bug -
Harvestman walking through the grass -
Idia americalis -
Monochamus notatus -
Nicrophorus tomentosus -
Tomentose Burying Beetle (with Phoretic Mites) - Nicrophorus tomentosus -
Nicrophorus tomentosus -
Tomentose Burying Beetle (with Phoretic Mites) - Nicrophorus tomentosus -
Small Black Dung Beetle - Copris minutus -
Rhinoncus pericarpius - Having an itch -
Ectoparasitic Mites (Larvae) - Leptus sp. -
parasitic water mite on Diplacodes trivialis