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neville park<p><a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/DailyMiteVid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DailyMiteVid</span></a>: whirligig mites (family Anystidae) are happy to eat each other, as you can see from this clip filmed today. I noticed that the mite being eaten seemed to still be alive and moving its limbs; it was only on re-watching the video that I realized it seemed to be cleaning one of its legs! </p><p>CW: slightly shaky video moving in &amp; out of focus; mite being altogether too chill about being devoured alive by its fellow</p><p><a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Mitestodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mitestodon</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/MiteBehaviour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiteBehaviour</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/mites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mites</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Acari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Acari</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Acariformes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Acariformes</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Anystidae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anystidae</span></a></p>
neville park<p>The sidewalk mites (_Balaustium_) that swarm over the ground this time of year primarily eat pollen, but they will also scavenge dead bugs (I do not think they are actually predatory). This horde has found an ant pupa, I think? </p><p>I am fascinated by this behaviour and try to catch it at least once every summer.</p><p><a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/DailyMiteVid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DailyMiteVid</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Mitestodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mitestodon</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/MiteBehaviour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiteBehaviour</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/arachnids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arachnids</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/mites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mites</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Acari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Acari</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Acariformes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Acariformes</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Parasitengona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Parasitengona</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Erythraeidae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Erythraeidae</span></a></p>
neville park<p>I can't even wait for <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/MiteMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiteMonday</span></a>, this is too exciting, I have to share it now!!!</p><p>In Walter &amp; Proctor's _Mites: Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour: Life at a Microscale_, there's this great image of mites in the family Acaridae mating, with the male facing backwards and his aedeagus (dick) inserted into the female's dorsal copulatory opening (bussy [back pussy]), so he is carried along on her back, a bit like a wheelbarrow race, but backwards.</p><p>Anyway this evening I was idly taking macro of the mites in the fruit fly culture when I SAW IT. It's easier to make out with video. </p><p>marked nsfw for graphic photos and videos of mite sex, you were warned</p><p><a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Mitestodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mitestodon</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/DailyMiteVid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DailyMiteVid</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/arachnids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arachnids</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/mites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mites</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/MiteBehaviour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiteBehaviour</span></a> • <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Acari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Acari</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Acariformes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Acariformes</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Acaridae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Acaridae</span></a></p>
neville park<p><a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Arachtober" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arachtober</span></a> 23: from June, a long-legged velvet mite (family Erythraeidae) climbs into a silk retreat over the exuvia (molted exoskeleton) of the jumping spider (family Salticidae) that previously occupied it. This is not the first time I have seen mites using old spider retreats for shelter! </p><p><a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/DailyMitePic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DailyMitePic</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Mitestodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mitestodon</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/arachnids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arachnids</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/mites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mites</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/MiteBehaviour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiteBehaviour</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/DailySpiderPic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DailySpiderPic</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/SpidersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpidersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/JumpingSpiders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JumpingSpiders</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/spiders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spiders</span></a> • <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Acari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Acari</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Acariformes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Acariformes</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Erythraeidae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Erythraeidae</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Araneae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Araneae</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Salticidae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Salticidae</span></a></p>
neville park<p>That Lady and the Tramp scene with the spaghetti, but it's these sumo mites (_Allothrombium_) feeding on a dead midge (family Chironomidae). </p><p>Also later they started fighting, but I'm not sure if they were fighting over the midge or just regular sumo mite fighting. </p><p><a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/DailyMiteVid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DailyMiteVid</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Mitestodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mitestodon</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/arachnids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arachnids</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/mites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mites</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Acari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Acari</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Trombidiidae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trombidiidae</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Allothrombium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Allothrombium</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/MiteBehaviour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiteBehaviour</span></a></p>