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 Acari - question.
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| amaira |
Posted on 09-08-2008 10:49
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 Member Location: Stockholm Sweden Posts: 415 Joined: 13.08.06 |
Is it possilbe to give this little Acari a name? It is common, I rather often find it, one or more, on flies, sometimes on spiders, and as here on a bug Lagria hirta. amaira attached the following image:  [75.13Kb] |
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| amaira |
Posted on 09-08-2008 10:50
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Member Location: Stockholm Sweden Posts: 415 Joined: 13.08.06 |
Does anybody have more facts about it?
amaira attached the following image:  [68.33Kb] |
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| John Bratton |
Posted on 09-08-2008 10:55
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Member Location: Menai Bridge, North Wales, UK Posts: 654 Joined: 17.10.06 |
I think naming the mite won't be possible. I suspect it is a juvenile so probably not possible even if an acarologist had it under their microscope. (Lagria is a beetle, not a bug.) John |
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| amaira |
Posted on 09-08-2008 11:04
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Member Location: Stockholm Sweden Posts: 415 Joined: 13.08.06 |
Thankyou for your answer, John! Beetle, of course. But, what i "bug" then? Thinking om "love bug"? - can just find bed bug in my lexicon now... Sorry for my bad english. |
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| John Bratton |
Posted on 14-08-2008 16:15
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Member Location: Menai Bridge, North Wales, UK Posts: 654 Joined: 17.10.06 |
No need to apologise. Your English is infinitely better than my Swedish. In British entomology, bug means a species of Hemiptera. It is disputed whether it should include the Homoptera (frog-hoppers, cicadas etc.) or just the Heteroptera (shield bugs, water boatmen, lacebugs etc.) But it also gets used by non-entomologists for any invertebrate with legs; also for disease-causing microbes. Thus "I've caught a bug" might mean you've found something interesting, or you will be staying in bed for a few days until you feel better. John |
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