You may have created the ideal environment for soil mites, which look like very small white insects that move around on top ...

Mites exhibit a broad range of feeding behaviors, including parasitism. "For instance, soil mites are everywhere, and are ...

Our shadows of shed life sustain multitudes. Some of the real monsters of the mite world live in soil, where one can find predatory mites armed with a medieval arsenal of mouthparts. Some have ...

TSSM enter diapause to overwinter, usually in ground cover, under loose soil or even tree bark. In warmer locations, TSSM may not diapause and instead infest a different host plant until the spring.

Cereal rust mite adults are small measuring less than one millimeter (mm), and for the first time observer a 10-20X hand lens is needed to see them. The mites are cigar-shaped and roughly twice as ...