#MiteMonday: The _Balaustium_ will continue until morale improves^W^W Peak Anystid is upon us

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#BREAKING: the long-legged velvet mites (family Erythraeidae) are out in force! They're the little red guys seen in large numbers running around on concrete and such, eating pollen, sap, dead bugs, and other plentiful springtime foods.

(Not 100% sure on genus for this particular one, will edit in later if I find out)

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#MiteMonday: _Balaustium_ sidewalk mites eating pollen (a fallen tulip anther I placed there for them).

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Garden arachnids from today:

- _Leucauge venusta_ spiderling has set up near the mosquito bucket
- male _Attulus fasciger_
- couldn't quite ID this smallish, cryptic-patterned jumper, any ideas? (🌎 Toronto, Ontario)
- bonus mite: pollen-eating _Balaustium_ have started to appear!

#SpiderSunday #DailySpiderPic #DailyMitePic #spiders #orbweavers #JumpingSpiders #mites #Araneae #Tetragnathidae #Salticidae #Acari #Acariformes #Erythraeidae

Bei einem hautnahen Aufenthalt in der Natur bleibt ein Kontakt mit dem Gemeinen Holzbock (Ixodes ricinus) oft nicht aus. Wohl dem, der die Tierchen findet bevor sie sich festbeißen. Sie können Überträger von Frühsommer-Meningoenzephalitis (FSME) oder Lyme-Borreliose sein

#artenvielfalt #nature #natur #Milben #Acari #Zecken #Ixodida #Schildzecken #Ixodidae #fsme #borreliose

#MiteMonday: an oribatid mite, a slow-moving detritivore with hard, shell-like armour. This one was manoeuvring around some spider silk. I have the feeling it's one of those ones whose name ends in -zetes? @frankashwood would have a better idea.

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