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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Mites and Ticks (Acari) » Acariformes » Actinedida » Parasitengona » Erythraeoidea » Erythraeidae
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Arachnids on desert five-spot flower
Copyright © 2008 Jack Owicki

Arachnids on desert five-spot flower
Death Valley, Inyo County, California, USA
March 24, 2008
Size: Flower is ~ 3 cm diameter
This is a tight crop from the whole-flower image. Sorry for concentrating on the flower rather than the critters when I took the photo!

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Contributed by Jack Owicki on 23 April, 2009 - 3:39pm
Last updated 22 October, 2009 - 5:04pm

Moved
Moved from Erythraeoidea.
… Jack Owicki, 22 October, 2009 - 5:04pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Harsi S. Parker, 19 May, 2009 - 2:56pm login or register to post comments

Well, it IS a beautiful flower...
...who could blame you for focusing on it? (*smile*) Unfortunately, I doubt that there will be enough detail here for someone to get a lot further than "mite" with the ID. But, who knows? Leave it in ID Request for awhile and see what happens...
… Harsi S. Parker, 26 April, 2009 - 12:11am login or register to post comments

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