A guide to mites

[ph0bia]

Originally Posted by AshMashMash

You know they're not like the all-seeing gods? Press the report button or PM someone and recommend it for sticky.

Personally, it's "tl;dr" for me, but I am sure it's good

I did

[GRB]

Pete, great article.

However, I'm confused by certain things - firstly....13,000 species? More like 48,000 surely?

I was drafting an article, but I was struggling to make it less academic - I always get stuck into taxonomy etc and forget that most people don't actually care about nor need such info. At my rate it might have been done 2 months from now, woefully overdetailed! Perhaps I could add to this article and go through some of the main groups and clades of mites, they are quite fascinating.I'll have to see, I'm busy trying to get my head around multivariate stats at the moment which are...confusing. Oribatids are a particular (and recent) interest of mine, very cool little things.

[Poxicator]

I think you're correct, the amount of species is way beyond 13,000 but finding an accurate agreed upon figure seems fruitless. The point is there's a hell of a lot of different species, including those that attack humans, so trying to identify them is no easy task.
Adding to the information, even in academic form, is all good information worthy of reading by those who want to know more. Go ahead and add, I've tried to provide a both levels of information.

[GRB]

Originally Posted by Poxicator

I think you're correct, the amount of species is way beyond 13,000 but finding an accurate agreed upon figure seems fruitless. The point is there's a hell of a lot of different species, including those that attack humans, so trying to identify them is no easy task.
Adding to the information, even in academic form, is all good information worthy of reading by those who want to know more. Go ahead and add, I've tried to provide a both levels of information.

Yeah, the taxonomy is massively confusing. I am familiar with the terms and it still manages to confuse me with the numerous layers and subclasses. Then again, there can be up to 900 genera within one family (compare to tarantulas with 900 species) so the complexity is probably a necessity.

[Dan99]

Whoo sticky. You are helping me out again pete. I need to help you out soon !!

[one of a kind]

Poxi your the man ^_^

[Juggernaut]

im terrified of T's and therefore have no interest in keeping them, but i found that post fascinating, top marks

[ginna]

this is a good post i have often wondered how to get rid of mites so ta for that

[Poxicator]

Anyone interested in seeing mites on a tarantula might want to watch this. I provided this tarantula an ICU, after clearing it of mites, and fed it water and crushed cricket direct to the mouth. Unfortunately after nearly 2 weeks it died.
YouTube - mites ICU P-lugardi

[GRB]

Originally Posted by Poxicator

Anyone interested in seeing mites on a tarantula might want to watch this. I provided this tarantula an ICU, after clearing it of mites, and fed it water and crushed cricket direct to the mouth. Unfortunately after nearly 2 weeks it died.
YouTube - mites ICU P-lugardi

That's quite tragic.

Do you think the mites were the cause, or that they had colonised the already sick tarantula?