Tydeidae
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Adults
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Adults
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Family
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Tydeidae
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Common Name
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Yellow mites
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Size
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Relatively small
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Appearance
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Yellow, soft-bodied
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Location on Tree
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Often found near
midrib of leaf
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Mobility
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Fast moving
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Niche
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Predatory, plant
feeding, and scavenging; usually doing all three in orchards
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Acaridae
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Adult |
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Family
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Acaridae |
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Appearance
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Body distinctly seperated into two parts by suture. Usually smooth and pale in color. Dorsal shield near head. |
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Location on Tree
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Found on older tree parts |
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Niche
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Predatory or deutritus feeding |
Oribatidae: Moss and Beetle Mites
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Larvae
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Adult
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On calyx of apple
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Family
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Oribatidae |
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Common Name
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Moss mites, Beetle mites |
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Appearance
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Hard-bodied, brownish red. Resemble small beetles because of hard, shiny surface. |
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Location on Tree
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Rare, found under bark, but can be present on calyx of apple at harvest time |
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Egg Appearance
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Elliptical, transparent eggs |
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Mobility
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Slow moving |
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Niche
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Soil decomposers |
Saproglyphidae
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Czenspinskia lordi
Adult
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Family
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Saproglyphidae |
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Species
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Czenspinskia lordi |
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Size
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Small |
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Appearance
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Transparent, with two red dots posteriorly on the dorsum. Smooth skin. |
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Location on Tree
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Found feeding on and around tree |
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Egg Appearance
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Oval and opague |
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Mobility
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Slow moving |
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Niche
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Generally fungal feeders, some phytophagous species known |
Tarsonemidae
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Adults
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Family
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Tarsonemidae
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Size
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Medium-sized
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Appearance
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Shiny, flesh
or peach colored. Anterior dorsal shield.
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Location on Tree
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Among veins and
trichomes of leaves
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Egg Appearance
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Clear, whitish-yellow,
oval eggs
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Niche
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Phytophagous,
predatory, and scavenging; mostly scavenging in apple orchards
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Mites That Fill Other Niches
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