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Harvestmen (Opiliones)???
Copyright © 2005 Lisa Parsons

Harvestmen (Opiliones)???
Lapeer, MI, Lapeer County, Michigan, USA
July 6, 2005
Are those little red buggers stuck to this spider some kind of mites? Identify spider please?
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Contributed by Lisa Parsons on 7 August, 2005 - 10:28am
Last updated 12 October, 2005 - 3:38pm

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This harvestman is probably Leiobunum sp., and I don't think the mites are parasitic. They are probably phoretic, and just hitching a ride.
… Charles D. R. Stephen, 9 April, 2006 - 1:41pm login or register to post comments

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… Terry Thormin, 11 October, 2005 - 8:15pm login or register to post comments

yes to both
You are correct. The big one is not a spider at all, but a harvestman or daddy longlegs. I'm afraid I don't know much about identification within this group yet, maybe somebody does. And the red buggers are parasitic mites, or possibly mite larvae; many mites are parasitic as larvae but predatory as adults.
… Joshua Stuart Rose, 7 August, 2005 - 1:49pm login or register to post comments

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