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: I was taking a photo of this red velvet mite (family Trombidiidae) when I noticed something on its butt. To my great surprise, it was another mite—a mesostigmatid, which are often hitchhikers on other arthropods. I haven't seen anything similar on trombidiids before, to my knowledge. Anyone know what's going on here?

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Exciting Peak Anystid discovery today: just like the spiders in early spring had webs full of clover mites, the spiders now have webs full of whirligig mites!!

#dailyspiderpic #spiders #Theridiidae #DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #mites #Acari #anystidae #arachnids

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in other news, found bristly millipedes (Polyxenida) and snout mites (Bdellidae) on my building's garden wall and was, unfortunately, very weird about it just as neighbours were coming home

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The trick to getting whirligig mites (family Anystidae) to stay still: water! All that running must be thirsty work, because they will almost always stop to drink for a good long while.

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"Onward, noble steed!"

A long-legged velvet mite scrambling around the lakeside boardwalk ended up climbing onto this placid weevil several times.

#WeevilWednesday #DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #erythraeidae #insects #beetles #Weevils #coleoptera #Curculionidae

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Dispatches from Peak Anystid season: they're hungry for aphids!!

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: It's crowded in the garden during Peak Anystid! Yesterday I saw a whirligig mite (family Anystidae) eating a small plant bug (family Miridae) when a second mite came along and had a bite. The first mite stopped feeding, but did keep one foot on the bug, as if to call dibs. It wasn't long before a third mite happened upon the kill and also helped itself to the bug.

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Here are just a few of the whirligig mites (Anystidae) I saw today in the garden.

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It's Peak Anystid and it seems every milkweed plant in the garden has at least half a dozen big plump ones running around on it! This one is eating an aphid.

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But, baby orbweavers are out in force, and we're almost at Peak Anystid!

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Sidewalk mites (_Balaustium_) feeding on pollen. You can see their pollen-covered legs better in the second pic.

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Anystid season is upon us! Saw three running around on one milkweed plant. However we have not yet reached the carnivorous chaos that is PEAK ANYSTID, when big whirligig mites run riot throughout the garden.

I just love these little guys I'm not sorry

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Whirligig mite (family Anystidae) eating pollen. The first pic may be technically better, but the second one is *truer*.

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went out for a walk even though it was cold and at the last tree just before i was about to go home i think i sAW ANYSTIDS EATING CLOVER MITE EGGS??!? will upload video but in meanwhile here's a picture

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This pair grappled hanging off the edge of a piece of bark, a scene fit for an action movie, if the stars were walking cushions. The fight ended when one already battle-scarred participant fell to the bark below and scrambled off.

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MITE FIGHTS MITE FIGHTS

_Allothrombium_ red velvet mites, more peanut-shaped than their _Trombidium_ cousins, are known as "sumo mites" because of their pugnacity in mating season. The males defend little patches of territory against all comers before depositing spermatophores for females to pick up. This behaviour is described in Moss 1960: sci-hub.se/10.4039/Ent92898-12 :scihub:

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#InverteFest #DailyMitePic #MiteMonday #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Oribatida #macro

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For , 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: mapress.com/zt/article/view/zo

:inaturalist: inaturalist.ca/observations/15

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neville park · @nev
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This one red velvet mite was very interested in a small insect pupa of some kind. youtu.be/TxRUAw3pqkA

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neville park · @nev
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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.

youtu.be/x1Y6JqGuoBQ

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