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neville parkI almost forgot it was <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/MiteMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MiteMonday</a>! From under one of my reliable dead logs just a few days ago, a mesostig with its prey, a tiny white springtail; a slug for scale; and a smaller, paler mesostig crossing paths with another springtail (which it did not try to eat). <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/DailyMitePic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DailyMitePic</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Mitestodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mitestodon</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/arachnids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arachnids</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/mites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mites</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/springtails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#springtails</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Acari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Acari</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Parasitiformes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Parasitiformes</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Mesostigmata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mesostigmata</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Collembola" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Collembola</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Poduromorpha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poduromorpha</a>

neville parkThe first <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/MiteMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MiteMonday</a> in a while! The wet dead leaves are a bountiful source of predatory mesostigmatid mites. <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Mitestodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mitestodon</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/arachnids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arachnids</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/mites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mites</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Acari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Acari</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Parasitiformes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Parasitiformes</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Mesostigmata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mesostigmata</a>

neville park<a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/MiteMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MiteMonday</a>: checked out my favourite dead logs, got more pictures of mesostigs preying on springtails!! <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/DailyMitePic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DailyMitePic</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Mitestodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mitestodon</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/arachnids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arachnids</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/mites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mites</a> • <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Acari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Acari</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Parasitiformes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Parasitiformes</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Mesostigmata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mesostigmata</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Parasitidae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Parasitidae</a>???

neville park<a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Arachtober" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arachtober</a> 19: one of my favourite finds this year, a hister beetle (family Histeridae) carrying several phoretic (hitchhiking) Uropodina mites attached via "anal pedicels", tough but stretchy stalks formed from special secretions from glands in…well, you can probably guess where. The mites are harmless to the beetle and use it to disperse to new habitats.More on phoresy in Uropodina: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2023.2288847" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2023.2288847</a> :OpenAccess: <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/DailyMitePic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DailyMitePic</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Mitestodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mitestodon</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/arachnids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arachnids</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/mites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mites</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/phoresy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#phoresy</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/AnalPedicel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnalPedicel</a> • <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Acari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Acari</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Parasitiformes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Parasitiformes</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Mesostigmata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mesostigmata</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Uropodina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Uropodina</a>

neville park<a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Arachtober" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arachtober</a> 7: this mesostig's bristly, pointy face kind of reminds me of a hedgehog. Although similar in colour and body shape, it seems a bit more…rugged than the ones I normally see? More matte and spiky. <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/MiteMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MiteMonday</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Mitestodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mitestodon</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/arachnids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arachnids</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/mites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mites</a> • <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Acari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Acari</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Parasitiformes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Parasitiformes</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Mesostigmata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mesostigmata</a>

neville park<a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Arachtober" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arachtober</a> 4: a representative from the other mite order, Parasitiformes! The parasitiform group Mesostigmata does contain some infamous parasites, but many—like this one here—are soil-dwelling predators.(Acariformes and Parasitiformes have traditionally been grouped together under Acari, "mites", but in fact they are probably not each other's closest relatives and deserve to be treated as separate groups. Don't look too closely at higher mite classification or you will go mad.)<a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/DailyMitePic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DailyMitePic</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Mitestodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mitestodon</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/arachnids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arachnids</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/mites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mites</a> • <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Acari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Acari</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Parasitiformes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Parasitiformes</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Mesostigmata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mesostigmata</a>

neville park<a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Arachtober" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arachtober</a> 7: a tiny, intriguingly patterned mesostigmatid mite, from the same bunch of logs where I found the orange mushrooms in my recent post. <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/DailyMitePic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DailyMitePic</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Mitestodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mitestodon</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/arachnids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arachnids</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/mites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mites</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Acari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Acari</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Mesostigmata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mesostigmata</a>

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