Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Acari - question.
Posted by amaira on 09-08-2008 11:49
#1
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.
Posted by amaira on 09-08-2008 11:50
#2
Does anybody have more facts about it?
Posted by John Bratton on 09-08-2008 11:55
#3
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
Posted by amaira on 09-08-2008 12:04
#4
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.
Posted by John Bratton on 14-08-2008 17:15
#5
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