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  2. Pyemotes tritici - Wikipedia

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    Pyemotes tritici is a species of mite known as the grain itch mite [2] or straw itch mite. [3] It is a cosmopolitan species that is found on straw, hay and stored grain. It is a parasite of small arthropods and is being investigated as a possible biological control of stored product pests.

  3. Pyemotes herfsi - Wikipedia

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    Pyemotes herfsi, also known as the oak leaf gall mite or itch mite, is an ectoparasitic mite identified in Europe and subsequently found in India, Asia, and the United States. The mite parasitizes a variety of insect hosts and bites humans, causing red, itchy, and painful wheals (welts). The mites are barely visible, measuring about 0.2–0.8 ...

  4. Feeling itchy? Tiny mites may bite humans more after cicada ...

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    The first oak leaf itch mite-related rashes on humans after a periodical cicada brood emergence was in 2007 in the Chicago area, the last time Brood XIII emerged, ...

  5. Pyemotidae - Wikipedia

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    One species Pyemotes tritici attacks the larvae of grain moths and stored grain pests and is known as the "straw itch mite" because when humans come into contact with it, it attempts to feed on their skin, injecting venomous saliva and causing an itchy red rash. [2]

  6. Cicadas come with an itchy pest — tiny mites that can cause ...

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    Hundreds of thousands of the tiny wind-soaring and itch-inducing critters can fall from trees every day and are packed with a venom that can paralyze prey 166,000 times their size.

  7. List of mites associated with cutaneous reactions - Wikipedia

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    Bird mite Tropical fowl mite: Gamasoidosis Ornithonyssus sylviarum: Bird mite Northern fowl mite Gamasoidosis Psoroptidae spp: Carpet mite: Feather pillow dermatitis: Pyemotes herfsi: Itch mite: Grain itch Sarcoptes scabiei: Itch mite: Scabies: Trombicula alfreddugesi: Chigger Harvest mite: Grain itch Trombicula autumnalis: Chigger Harvest mite ...

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