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Beetle Mites
Copyright © 2007 tom murray

Beetle Mites
Boxborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
June 14, 2007
Size: .5mm and .16mm
These were on an oak timber*worm beetle. Are the small ones babies, or a different species?

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Beetle Mites Beetle Mites
Contributed by tom murray on 16 June, 2007 - 1:50pm
Last updated 16 June, 2007 - 5:10pm

Hyperphoresy!
The small mites on the big Uropodid are deutonymphs in the family Acaridae, possibly the genus Schwiebea or Histiogaster. Species in both genera live in subcortical habitats and disperse on a variety of wood-associated insects. - Barry
… Barry M. OConnor, 28 August, 2008 - 2:13pm

 
Thanks, Barry.
It's great to get these info tidbits from an acarologist.
… Jim McClarin, 28 August, 2008 - 4:28pm

Thanks Jim
Moved from Mites and Ticks.
… tom murray, 16 June, 2007 - 5:10pm

Uropodidae
That would be the large mite anyway.
… Jim McClarin, 16 June, 2007 - 4:48pm

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