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 one year ago
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Cetonia aurata with passengers -
Gerridae nymph full o'mites -
Limoniidae with mites -
Hoverfly with mite -
Uropodina deutonymphs on Aphodius fimetarius -
Chock full o'mites -
Scaphidium quadrimaculatum with Uropodina -
Male Yellow-winged Darter (Sympetrum flaveolum), Finland -
Sympetrum meridionale female -
Sympetrum meridionale female -
Cherry-faced Meadowhawk - Male -
Red Dragonfly, the Greater Crimson Glider (Urothemis signata) male - closed up -
Blue Dasher (with Mites) -
Rilaena triangularis side view -
Rilaena triangularis harvestman on bark of tree -
Daddy longlegs spider - Phalangium opilio, male -
Harvestman Phalangium opilio (male) -
Phalangium opilio - Male with mites -
Rilaena triangularis with mites -
Rilaena triangularis - Juvenile with mite -
Nicrophorus vespillo -
Roundneck Sexton Beetle - Nicrophorus orbicollis -
Beetle arises from fallen fungus -
Nicrophorus vespillo