neville park · @nev
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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!!
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neville park · @nev
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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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neville park · @nev
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Dispatches from Peak Anystid season: they're hungry for aphids!!
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neville park · @nev
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#MiteMonday: 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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neville park · @nev
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Here are just a few of the whirligig mites (Anystidae) I saw today in the garden.
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neville park · @nev
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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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neville park · @nev
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But, baby orbweavers are out in force, and we're almost at Peak Anystid!
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neville park · @nev
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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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neville park · @nev
851 followers · 3887 posts · Server flipping.rocks@jerzone does it run around like a very distracted Olympic sprinter, or perhaps like the dot of a red laser held by someone with very shaky hands? If so, it's probably a whirligig mite (#Anystidae).
neville park · @nev
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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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neville park · @nev
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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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neville park · @nev
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Yesterday I found tiny juvenile erythraeids (long-legged velvet mites) on the rocks at High Park and today I found a couple of equally tiny juvenile anystids (whirligig mites) in my building's garden! IT BEGINS
You can tell they're not fully grown yet because they only have six legs—they will have eight legs as adults, like all arachnids.
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