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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 ...
Aceria mackiei, previously Eriophyes mackiei, the live oak erineum mite, is an abundant eriophyoid mite that produces leaf-blister galls on coast live oak, interior live oak, huckleberry oak, and canyon live oak. [1] This mite's ability to induce galls in oaks of both the black oak group and the intermediate oak group is unique. [1]
Grocer's itch is a cutaneous condition characterized by a pruritic dermatitis that occurs from coming into contact with mites such as Carpoglyphus passularum (a fruit mite) or Glycyphagus domesticus (a common house mite). Contact usually occurs when handling food with mites in it, such as figs, dates, prunes, grain, cheese, or other dried foods.
Most people get these mite bites in the late summer and early fall when the species is most populated. "Studies have shown that mites can fall from trees in numbers of up to 370,000 per day ...
Zaborski further found that the mites were ectoparasites whose numbers had increased while feeding on the brood's eggs. [ 9 ] The mites usually feed on oak leaf gall midge ( Polystepha pilulae ) larvae and other insects, but, as Zaborski found, also parasitize periodical cicada eggs when those are available.
Aceria baccharices, also known as the mulefat leaf-blister mite and formerly known as Eriophyes baccharices, is a species of arachnid native to North America that induces galls on two California willows, Baccharis salicifolia and Baccharis glutinosa. [1] [2] This mite was first described to science by Hartford H. Keifer in 1945. [3]
Missouri's DoC states that eastern states most commonly see the smaller species of red velvet mites (no larger than 1/8 of an inch), whereas the southwest will see slightly larger mites, averaging ...
Species include: Oligonychus aceris (maple spider mite), a pest of maples [2] Oligonychus afrasiaticus (date palm spider mite), a major pest of the date palm in North Africa and the Middle East; [3] [4] also on grasses, including maize [1] Oligonychus araneum (grasswebbing mite) [5] Oligonychus bicolor (oak red mite), on oaks and other hardwood ...