Red Bug in Sphagnum

Moved

Moved from Parasitengona.

… Ken Schneider, 25 May, 2010 - 9:43pm

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Moved from Mites and Ticks.

… Ken Schneider, 15 August, 2009 - 9:57am

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Moved from Frass.

… Charley Eiseman, 12 May, 2008 - 7:28pm

Frassed

Poor image quality

… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 12 May, 2008 - 6:58pm

Mite?

My first guess would have been some sort of mite...
These mites

apparently eat moss, although it doesn't look very similar to me. Possibly an earlier life stage though.
...And there are other little red mites in wet areas, such as these:

… Charley Eiseman, 27 April, 2008 - 10:12pm

Thank you for your ideas and

Thank you for your ideas and comments. I myself is a vegetation ecologist with a limited knowledge but much of interest to insects (and all life forms in general). Accidently, I initiated two discussions on the same subject. I posted another thread with a title:
Can it be Subclass Entognatha, Order Protura?
There are some comments there as well.

… Serguei Ponomarenko, 29 April, 2008 - 9:57pm

Dah!

I think I made a reply on the other entry of this image...
I think I postulated that it might be an aphid of some type, right?
Or a young scale bug. I have no idea from this angle. If you have other photos of it, especially ones that show the number of legs that might be useful to it's identification. :)

… Jonas Insinga, 28 July, 2008 - 10:25pm