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#arachtober 20: at protest can't toot here is sumo mite

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A furry wrinkly red mite on a tree
October 20, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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#arachtober 17: a whirligig mite doing…something with the protective waxy fluff of a woolly aphid (or maybe an adelgid?) on a lichen-covered white pine tree trunk. Eating the insect underneath?

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On smooth flat bark covered with light seafoam-to-leaf-green-coloured crustose lichen and bold yellow-green foliose lichen, a squat, shiny red mite with spiky hairs is next to a small woolly white clump, one of several visible on the tree trunk. A closer view shows the mite's pedipalps are buried in the fluff (they were moving around, in fact).
October 17, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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#arachtober 9: eh whatever more sumo mites

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Six red velvet mites of various sizes, scrambling around on a tree root in the grass. One is eating a dead midge.
October 9, 2026 at 11:20 PM