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  2. Pyemotes herfsi - Wikipedia

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    Pyemotes herfsi, also known as the oak leaf gall mite or the oak leaf itch mite, is an ectoparasitic mite identified in Europe and subsequently found in India, Asia, and the United States. The mite parasitizes a variety of insect hosts and is able to bite humans, causing red, itchy, and painful wheals (welts). The mites are barely visible ...

  3. Cicadas come with an itchy pest — tiny mites that can cause ...

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    Most people get these mite bites in the late summer and early fall when the species is most populated. "Studies have shown that mites can fall from trees in numbers of up to 370,000 per day ...

  4. Feeling itchy? Tiny mites may bite humans more after cicada ...

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    The first oak leaf itch mite-related rashes on humans after a periodical cicada brood emergence was in 2007 in the Chicago area, the last time Brood XIII emerged, according an Illinois Department ...

  5. Penthaleus major - Wikipedia

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    Penthaleus major, known generally as the winter grain mite or blue oat mite, is a species of earth mite in the family Penthaleidae. [1] [2] [3] ...

  6. Spider Mites Can Be Awful to Get Rid Of. Here's How to Do It

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    For garden plants, use the hose to blast mites off, hitting the tops and bottoms of leaf surfaces. Recheck every few days, and hose them off again. Recheck every few days, and hose them off again.

  7. Insect winter ecology - Wikipedia

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    Insect winter ecology describes the overwinter survival strategies of insects, which are in many respects more similar to those of plants than to many other animals, such as mammals and birds. Unlike those animals, which can generate their own heat internally ( endothermic ), insects must rely on external sources to provide their heat ...

  8. Aceria mackiei - Wikipedia

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    Aceria mackiei, previously Eriophyes mackiei, the live oak erineum mite, is an abundant eriophyoid mite that produces leaf-blister galls on coast live oak, interior live oak, huckleberry oak, and canyon live oak. [1] This mite's ability to induce galls in oaks of both the black oak group and the intermediate oak group is unique. [1]

  9. Aphids, Spider Mites and 7 Other Bugs That Are Killing Your ...

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