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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Equipment, set-ups and techniques » Active search and collection equipment and techniques
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Flotsam harvesting
Copyright © 2007 Jim McClarin

Flotsam harvesting
Nashua, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
April 20, 2007
Yet another mite loaded with beetles. Wait, did I say that wrong?
Hmmm.

I have found dozens of red velvet mites and scores of smaller mites in the flotsam.

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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 26 April, 2007 - 11:18pm
Last updated 24 November, 2011 - 1:14am

Moved
Moved from Frass.
… Jim McClarin, 28 June, 2010 - 9:39pm login or register to post comments

Frassed
Moved from Beetles.

Images not needed for the Guide. Will remain here for 30 days. If you want, relink them to the collection containers, etc and move there, but they are not really needed within Coleoptera.
… Blaine Mathison, 28 June, 2010 - 1:59pm login or register to post comments

That's
great. Any idea on the BL of the mite?
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 28 April, 2007 - 6:24pm login or register to post comments

 
Density
I'm sorry to be dense, but what is BL?
… Jim McClarin, 28 April, 2007 - 8:17pm login or register to post comments

 
BL
is body length.
When applied to spiders, it is the combined length of the carapace and abdomen. A couple more examples for spiders are: CL - carapace length, CW - " " width.
In general, BL is the length minus legspan (LS). I use BL for my insect and spider measurements.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 28 April, 2007 - 9:27pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Jeff.
In that case the BL is nearly 4 mm on this velvet mite. I found quite a size range among the velvet mites clinging to the flotsam. I guess that makes sense as they must grow.
… Jim McClarin, 28 April, 2007 - 10:19pm login or register to post comments

 
Wow
that's the biggest mite I've seen.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 29 April, 2007 - 10:23pm login or register to post comments

 
Not unusual for velvet mites.
I'm sure I've seen larger ones. Of course if you click on the Ti*ck icon, then the Taxonomy tab, you can see that tick*s are just one order under one of the two superorders of mites. A fully engorged female tick would therefore be a truly large mite :-)
… Jim McClarin, 30 April, 2007 - 6:08am login or register to post comments

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… Jim McClarin, 26 April, 2007 - 11:37pm login or register to post comments

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