Spider Mites on Potted Orange Tree
We once had a small potted orange tree as a houseplant. But while it started out well, over time it started doing poorly. Some branches would die back, and others would keep producing buds but the buds...
View ArticleEngorged Wood Ticks
A while back, we acquired some guinea fowl, which we let run around the yard to eat ticks[1]. It actually seems to be working, the tick levels in our yard are way down. But not zero, as can be seen...
View ArticleDeer Tick – Unengorged and Crawling
For our 500th posting[1], here is an old “friend”: a Deer Tick that Sandy found on our dog[2] on June 6, 2013. Unlike the previous deer ticks I photographed, this one hadn’t attached and drawn blood...
View ArticleVelvet Mite
On June 5, 2014, Sam found this on our brick pavers while helping clean up after Sandy built her new chicken run. It was only a bit over a millimeter long, and to the naked eye just looked like a tiny...
View ArticlePredatory Water Bug Nymph, with Water Mites
I caught a couple of these with a net out of the pond back in the woods on July 11, 2014. They were clearly nymphs of some type of predatory water bug, and I decided to keep one to see if I could raise...
View ArticleTick Nymph
Sandy was petting the dog on June 27, 2016, and felt a tiny object on the dog’s skin that didn’t feel quite like part of the dog. So, she got our Tick Twister tool, and pulled off the object. Which...
View ArticlePink and white patches on maple leaves – Erineum mites
Sam was looking at one of our maple trees on May 29, 2021, and noticed that there were glittery patches on many of the leaves. Some of the patches were pink, and some were white. She noted that they...
View ArticleVarroa Mite
So, as I’ve mentioned from time to time, I keep bees. And one of the recurring issues with honeybees is dealing with the varroa mites that infest them, and that eventually will become so numerous that...
View ArticleBlack-and-White Soil Mite from Terrarium
I decided that now would be a good time to get more practice using my extreme macro lens to look for extremely tiny arthropods in the soil. Everything outside is buried under several feet of snow as of...
View ArticleExtremely tiny reddish-brown soil mite
Our potted jade plants have decorative stones around the base, and on January 30, 2022, I picked out a stone that was about the size of a golf ball to look over with my cameral lens extended to 4x. So,...
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