There are several species that practice phoresy - hitch-hiking on other inverts. I've only seen them on beetles but they are regularly recorded on flies inc hoverflies and even on harvestmen.
September 28, 2026 at 6:34 PM
There are several species that practice phoresy - hitch-hiking on other inverts. I've only seen them on beetles but they are regularly recorded on flies inc hoverflies and even on harvestmen.
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September 14, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Who's got 👍 👍 & grabs #flies to travel? This guy!!! It fell off the timber fly: bsky.app/profile/bert...
Someone also found a stilt-legged fly, #Micropezidae, w/another little #pseudoscorpion hitching a ride. This type of #phoresy (traveling on other animals) is common. Costa Rica #FlySchool2026
Someone also found a stilt-legged fly, #Micropezidae, w/another little #pseudoscorpion hitching a ride. This type of #phoresy (traveling on other animals) is common. Costa Rica #FlySchool2026
August 29, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Who's got 👍 👍 & grabs #flies to travel? This guy!!! It fell off the timber fly: bsky.app/profile/bert...
Someone also found a stilt-legged fly, #Micropezidae, w/another little #pseudoscorpion hitching a ride. This type of #phoresy (traveling on other animals) is common. Costa Rica #FlySchool2026
Someone also found a stilt-legged fly, #Micropezidae, w/another little #pseudoscorpion hitching a ride. This type of #phoresy (traveling on other animals) is common. Costa Rica #FlySchool2026
~35 Myr ago, a female pseudoscorpion grabbed a fly's hind leg and got caught in resin, with a brood sac of 12 eggs still attached. µCT let us count every one. 🦂
✍️ Earliest fossil evidence of parental care and phoresy together, in iScience (open access): doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
✍️ Earliest fossil evidence of parental care and phoresy together, in iScience (open access): doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
August 22, 2026 at 7:19 PM
~35 Myr ago, a female pseudoscorpion grabbed a fly's hind leg and got caught in resin, with a brood sac of 12 eggs still attached. µCT let us count every one. 🦂
✍️ Earliest fossil evidence of parental care and phoresy together, in iScience (open access): doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
✍️ Earliest fossil evidence of parental care and phoresy together, in iScience (open access): doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
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August 12, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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Broke during storms that were leading to these broken poems.
Negativity on phoresy travels? just check the comings and goings!
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Negativity on phoresy travels? just check the comings and goings!
Born from captivity in these lands ruled by fanatics.
Just a mariner out here in the mainstream of mathematics!
#DailyPrompt, #firewords280, #BraveWrite, #LoveLetters
August 12, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Broke during storms that were leading to these broken poems.
Negativity on phoresy travels? just check the comings and goings!
Born from captivity in these lands ruled by fanatics.
Just a mariner out here in the mainstream of mathematics!
#DailyPrompt, #firewords280, #BraveWrite, #LoveLetters
Negativity on phoresy travels? just check the comings and goings!
Born from captivity in these lands ruled by fanatics.
Just a mariner out here in the mainstream of mathematics!
#DailyPrompt, #firewords280, #BraveWrite, #LoveLetters
July 31, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Wow, that's a more sinister form of phoresy than I'm accustomed to thinking about!
July 27, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Wow, that's a more sinister form of phoresy than I'm accustomed to thinking about!
I'm not the only one who loves ant mimic salticids 👀
That weird little thing hugging the back of the spider's head is a mantidfly baby - it will remain attached to this female Peckhamia until she lays her eggs, and then it'll borrow some eggs permanently. #PHORESY!
That weird little thing hugging the back of the spider's head is a mantidfly baby - it will remain attached to this female Peckhamia until she lays her eggs, and then it'll borrow some eggs permanently. #PHORESY!
July 27, 2026 at 1:00 AM
I'm not the only one who loves ant mimic salticids 👀
That weird little thing hugging the back of the spider's head is a mantidfly baby - it will remain attached to this female Peckhamia until she lays her eggs, and then it'll borrow some eggs permanently. #PHORESY!
That weird little thing hugging the back of the spider's head is a mantidfly baby - it will remain attached to this female Peckhamia until she lays her eggs, and then it'll borrow some eggs permanently. #PHORESY!
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This is how you micros are getting into my house, isn't it? Taking a page from the pseudoscorpion book and sneaking in riding on a larger bug!
(If you do not know about these small ones, look them up. Very weird and kind of cute)
This is how you micros are getting into my house, isn't it? Taking a page from the pseudoscorpion book and sneaking in riding on a larger bug!
(If you do not know about these small ones, look them up. Very weird and kind of cute)
![Screenshot of Wikipedia that says: Chelifer cancroides is the species most commonly found in homes, where it is often observed in rooms with dusty books.[1] There, the tiny animals (2.5–4.5 mm or 0.10–0.18 in) can find their food such as booklice and house dust mites. They enter homes by riding insects (phoresy) larger than themselves or are brought in with firewood. "They enter homes by riding insects (phoresy) larger than themselves" is highlighted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7blogtn3xn3uds7kbawnl5vv/bafkreif2b74ut4zfpdhdbgeq2y7p6bmsvotczayrxgoxitag6foyhtkdqu)
July 25, 2026 at 1:31 AM
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This is how you micros are getting into my house, isn't it? Taking a page from the pseudoscorpion book and sneaking in riding on a larger bug!
(If you do not know about these small ones, look them up. Very weird and kind of cute)
This is how you micros are getting into my house, isn't it? Taking a page from the pseudoscorpion book and sneaking in riding on a larger bug!
(If you do not know about these small ones, look them up. Very weird and kind of cute)
A cheeky bit of midweek mite-on-mite action!
Mites are masters at hitchhiking, or 'phoresy'. This oribatid mite is being taken for a ride by a juvenile dust mite, which is using it to get to greener pastures. When you're so tiny, it pays to outsource your means of travel!
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Mites are masters at hitchhiking, or 'phoresy'. This oribatid mite is being taken for a ride by a juvenile dust mite, which is using it to get to greener pastures. When you're so tiny, it pays to outsource your means of travel!
#TheWorldBeneathOurFeet 🧪
July 22, 2026 at 8:00 AM
A cheeky bit of midweek mite-on-mite action!
Mites are masters at hitchhiking, or 'phoresy'. This oribatid mite is being taken for a ride by a juvenile dust mite, which is using it to get to greener pastures. When you're so tiny, it pays to outsource your means of travel!
#TheWorldBeneathOurFeet 🧪
Mites are masters at hitchhiking, or 'phoresy'. This oribatid mite is being taken for a ride by a juvenile dust mite, which is using it to get to greener pastures. When you're so tiny, it pays to outsource your means of travel!
#TheWorldBeneathOurFeet 🧪
It would be the first known example of phoresy in spiders (that I know of, at least!).
January 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
It would be the first known example of phoresy in spiders (that I know of, at least!).
if they're learning about phoresy don't forget to show them pictures of pseudoscorps hitchin' a ride bugguide.net/node/view/16...
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November 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
if they're learning about phoresy don't forget to show them pictures of pseudoscorps hitchin' a ride bugguide.net/node/view/16...
🕷️ Beyond phoresy: Histiogaster arborsignis not only hitches rides with ambrosia beetles it also colonizes their galleries and feeds on symbiotic fungi in Florida avocados
📖 Symbiosis (2025)
🔗 10.1007/s13199-025-01063-0
#Acarology #AmbrosiaBeetles #Research #LatinAmericanScience
📖 Symbiosis (2025)
🔗 10.1007/s13199-025-01063-0
#Acarology #AmbrosiaBeetles #Research #LatinAmericanScience
October 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
🕷️ Beyond phoresy: Histiogaster arborsignis not only hitches rides with ambrosia beetles it also colonizes their galleries and feeds on symbiotic fungi in Florida avocados
📖 Symbiosis (2025)
🔗 10.1007/s13199-025-01063-0
#Acarology #AmbrosiaBeetles #Research #LatinAmericanScience
📖 Symbiosis (2025)
🔗 10.1007/s13199-025-01063-0
#Acarology #AmbrosiaBeetles #Research #LatinAmericanScience
Rusty-patched Bumblebee with Silken Fungus Beetle on its antenna. The beetle rides back to the bee colony, where it lays eggs; larvae feed on organic debris; new adults ride another bee back to the flowers. This is called phoresy.
#rustypatchedbumblebee #phoresy #silkenfungusbeetle
#rustypatchedbumblebee #phoresy #silkenfungusbeetle
August 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Rusty-patched Bumblebee with Silken Fungus Beetle on its antenna. The beetle rides back to the bee colony, where it lays eggs; larvae feed on organic debris; new adults ride another bee back to the flowers. This is called phoresy.
#rustypatchedbumblebee #phoresy #silkenfungusbeetle
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First report of phoresy on snipe flies (Diptera: Rhagionidae): the chewing louse Damalinia meyeri (Psocodea: Phthiraptera: Trichodectidae) on Symphoromyia immaculata PubMed
First report of phoresy on snipe flies (Diptera: Rhagionidae): the chewing louse Damalinia meyeri (Psocodea: Phthiraptera: Trichodectidae) on Symphoromyia immaculata
Phoresy, the passive transport of an organism by another, is a well-documented strategy among flightless arthropods, particularly in species that exploit patchily distributed resources. While phoresy among parasitic lice has been frequently recorded between avian-associated ischnoceran species riding on louse flies, reports of phoretic lice parasitic on mammals are exceedingly rare. Here, we report a case of phoresy of the chewing louse Damalinia (Cervicola) meyeri (Taschenberg) hitchhiking...
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January 14, 2026 at 2:28 PM
First report of phoresy on snipe flies (Diptera: Rhagionidae): the chewing louse Damalinia meyeri (Psocodea: Phthiraptera: Trichodectidae) on Symphoromyia immaculata PubMed
New research in #RESMedVetEnt
From host to host, and continent to continent: Two #phoresy-enabled #Guimaraesiella hitchhiker louse species revealed by integrative #taxonomy (#Phthiraptera: #Ischnocera)
doi.org/10.1111/mve.70045
#COIbarcoding #Lice #CrypticSpecies
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From host to host, and continent to continent: Two #phoresy-enabled #Guimaraesiella hitchhiker louse species revealed by integrative #taxonomy (#Phthiraptera: #Ischnocera)
doi.org/10.1111/mve.70045
#COIbarcoding #Lice #CrypticSpecies
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January 19, 2026 at 2:03 PM
New research in #RESMedVetEnt
From host to host, and continent to continent: Two #phoresy-enabled #Guimaraesiella hitchhiker louse species revealed by integrative #taxonomy (#Phthiraptera: #Ischnocera)
doi.org/10.1111/mve.70045
#COIbarcoding #Lice #CrypticSpecies
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From host to host, and continent to continent: Two #phoresy-enabled #Guimaraesiella hitchhiker louse species revealed by integrative #taxonomy (#Phthiraptera: #Ischnocera)
doi.org/10.1111/mve.70045
#COIbarcoding #Lice #CrypticSpecies
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Yes, thanks...phoresy. Unfortunately the load was so large that the only Protophormia that did manage to fly immediately crashed in to the grass about a foot away!
June 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Yes, thanks...phoresy. Unfortunately the load was so large that the only Protophormia that did manage to fly immediately crashed in to the grass about a foot away!
Read the paper in BMC Biology and Evolution: doi.org/10.1186/s128...
The oldest continuous association between astigmatid mites and termites preserved in Cretaceous amber reveals the evolutionary significance of phoresy - BMC Ecology and Evolution
Background Among minute-sized and wingless arthropods, astigmatid mites stand out for their diverse range of symbiotic associations (parasitic, neutral and mutualistic), with both invertebrate and ver...
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April 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Read the paper in BMC Biology and Evolution: doi.org/10.1186/s128...
Hitchhiking across continents: phoresy of pseudoscorpions (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones) on Diptera, with new European records
Jana Christophoryová, Vincent Mathy, Christoph Hörweg, Lucia Vičanová
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doi.org/10.3897/zook...
Jana Christophoryová, Vincent Mathy, Christoph Hörweg, Lucia Vičanová
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doi.org/10.3897/zook...
Hitchhiking across continents: phoresy of pseudoscorpions (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones) on Diptera, with new European records
Phoresy is an important dispersal strategy in pseudoscorpions, yet associations with Diptera have not been comprehensively revised for more than two decades. An updated synthesis of pseudoscorpion-Dip...
doi.org
April 8, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Hitchhiking across continents: phoresy of pseudoscorpions (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones) on Diptera, with new European records
Jana Christophoryová, Vincent Mathy, Christoph Hörweg, Lucia Vičanová
@zookeys.pensoft.net
doi.org/10.3897/zook...
Jana Christophoryová, Vincent Mathy, Christoph Hörweg, Lucia Vičanová
@zookeys.pensoft.net
doi.org/10.3897/zook...
mite phoresy is super interesting to me, i'd love to know how the extra weight effects (already not great) beetle flight. maybe these particular mites value protection from the elements over travel?
New OA paper from my lab: "The phoretic mite (Arachnida: Acari) assemblage of the Douglas-fir beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in central British Columbia, Canada"
tl;dr: Douglas-fir beetles carry a lot of mites of several species in some interesting ways.
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www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
tl;dr: Douglas-fir beetles carry a lot of mites of several species in some interesting ways.
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www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The phoretic mite (Arachnida: Acari) assemblage of the Douglas-fir beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in central British Columbia, Canada | The Canadian Entomologist | Cambridge Core
The phoretic mite (Arachnida: Acari) assemblage of the Douglas-fir beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in central British Columbia, Canada - Volume 156
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November 18, 2024 at 7:13 PM
mite phoresy is super interesting to me, i'd love to know how the extra weight effects (already not great) beetle flight. maybe these particular mites value protection from the elements over travel?
➡️ Original study: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
Hitchhiking across continents: phoresy of pseudoscorpions (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones) on Diptera, with new European records
Phoresy is an important dispersal strategy in pseudoscorpions, yet associations with Diptera have not been comprehensively revised for more than two decades. An updated synthesis of pseudoscorpion-Dip...
doi.org
May 13, 2026 at 10:15 AM
➡️ Original study: doi.org/10.3897/zook...