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vilgeforce, 30.07.2007 12:40

I deal with beetles and sometimes meet small mites on the body. It is quite clear that if it was a dung heap, the ticks use it to move to the next dung heap. But for example, on Ophonus, ticks are not entirely clear to me.

Maybe there is some literature on the topic, photos of ticks so that you can somehow identify them... In general, any information will be interesting.

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30.07.2007 12:46, omar

Very simple-ticks drink hemolymph. Are you sure it's Ophonus?

30.07.2007 12:53, vilgeforce

Hm... An interesting suggestion. Although, they were painfully small. But somewhere in the area of attachment of the head, they probably could have bitten through the "skin" or whatever it is correctly called.

I am almost 100% sure of Ophonus. Even if not Ophonus then something very close.

30.07.2007 13:39, Anthicus

Hm... An interesting suggestion. Although, they were painfully small. But somewhere in the area of attachment of the head, they probably could have bitten through the "skin" or whatever it is correctly called.

I am almost 100% sure of Ophonus. Even if not Ophonus then something very close.


Phoretic mites on beetles are treated by several people in Europe (Latvia. Czech Republic, Hungary). I have a contact of a Latvian colleague (chuskauss@yahoo.com You can also ask her for publications and contacts of other specialists.

30.07.2007 13:48, vilgeforce

Anthicus, thank you! I'll try to contact her.

30.07.2007 14:06, Anthicus

She is very responsive and responds quickly. English, Russian languages.

31.07.2007 9:31, алекс 2611

By the way, these mites are hardly related to manure. Very often met on bees and especially on bumblebees.

31.07.2007 11:48, amara

I recently met Ne/icrophorus sp. so covered with ticks (from all sides, probably approx. 100) that the poor guy could not take off.

05.08.2007 13:58, vilgeforce

I have a couple of Nicrophoruses waiting for me now. On a cursory inspection, there were no ticks, which surprised me. I'll freeze and watch. Although, I took them out from under the corpse buried by them, washes the ticks have already crawled over the corpse...

05.08.2007 15:11, amara

I have a couple of Nicrophoruses waiting for me now. On a cursory inspection, there were no ticks, which surprised me. I'll freeze and watch. Although, I took them out from under the corpse buried by them, washes the ticks have already crawled over the corpse...


I came across one once. Before that, ticks (usually in a smaller number) were found on dung fields.

08.08.2007 10:50, Anthicus

I have actually met ticks on representatives of all the land beetle families found in Latvia. Just not always a layman of this tick will notice and understand. that it is a tick, not a seed or a grain of sand. this is especially true for Uropodina nymphs.

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