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tiny mite with minute mites hitching a ride
Copyright © 2007 tom murray

tiny mite with minute mites hitching a ride
Ashburnham, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
April 30, 2007
Size: .4mm
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Contributed by tom murray on 30 April, 2007 - 8:16pm
Last updated 5 July, 2008 - 9:15am

Moved
Moved from Mites and Ticks.
… tom murray, 5 July, 2008 - 9:15am login or register to post comments

Suborder Poronota
http://bugguide.net/node/view/91353/bgpage
Probably a member of the family Galumnidae.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/94729/bgimage
… Jonas Insinga, 5 July, 2008 - 8:40am login or register to post comments

Uh, Tom, zoom in on that hitchiker would you?
I think I see something ... ;-)
… Jim McClarin, 1 May, 2007 - 7:39pm login or register to post comments

 
Which one, the top or the bottom one?:-)
I really can't enlarge the image any more without if falling apart.
… tom murray, 1 May, 2007 - 8:06pm login or register to post comments

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