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Bee with Parasite Mites

Bee with Parasite Mites
Oliver, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada
April 17, 2006
Size: 10 mm
What kind of parasite is it?

Moved
Moved from Mites and Ticks.
Barry: can you help us with the taxonomy of mites? You say that Astigmata is an infraorder, but here in Bugguide we have it as an order. Probably you have more up to date information.

Not a parasite
These mites are phoretic, i.e. just riding, not parasitic. Can't tell what the bee is, so not possible to ID the mites beyond infraorder Astigmata. - Barry

Moved
Moved from Mites.

Moved to guide
Yes, they are mites but, as you can see, we have a lot of unidentified mites, I will move this image to that page in case an expert comes along and that is where he/she will find it.

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