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@nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gyOct 12, 2026, 6:48 PM

#Arachtober 12 × #MiteMonday: one of my favourite mite finds this year, a random cluster of bird/rodent mites (superfamily Dermanyssoidea) on a Muskoka/Adirondack chair in a park. These mites are "nidicolous" (Latin "nidus", "nest"): they live in their host's […]

[Original post on flipping.rocks]

A bunch of tiny oval mites on a yellow recycled plastic plank in a Muskoka chair (a. k. a. Adirondack chair in the US). Their bodies are mostly translucent but have dark markings mostly on the rear half.A close-up of one of the mites. Its front pair of legs are reaching up and out, a little like the soil-dwelling predatory mesostigs previously featured here. The markings make it look like it has two body segments, but they are actually fused.
@spidermax3000.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 3:09 PM

#Arachtober 12th is #macromonday and #mitemonday
Red velvet #mite - family: Trombidiidae
(Shot near Cincinnati 4-6-26) 🕷️🪳🪲 #photography #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #invertebrate #arachnid #bugsky #bug #ento

A red velvet mite (Family: Trombidiidae) on sand and leaf litter facing the right of frame. The bright, velvety red contrasts noticeably against the the sand.
@nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gyOct 6, 2026, 5:50 AM

Slightly belated #Arachtober 5: for #MiteMonday, here's my favourite mite find of the year. Back in March, found a whole bunch of Erythracaridae racing around on pine trees.

These speedy predatory mites used to be part of Anystidae but were split off into […]

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A small reddish-orange mite with longish translucent legs that have faint red-orange banding and lots of spiky hairs sticking out exactly perpendicular to the leg. It also has two dark red eyespots. It looks very similar to a whirligig mite if you stretched it out a bit and added lots more leg hair.
@nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gySep 29, 2026, 5:42 AM

It's still #MiteMonday somewhere: today I wandered around the Necropolis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Necropolis) enjoying the lichen and finding various arachnids including some whirligig mites (family Anystidae). They seem to experience a brief […]

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A very old worn lichen-encrusted tombstone. A bright red mite with star-like splayed legs, small but still very visible to the naked eye, dances across it.