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Description:

This has to be the smallest spider i've seen. it's about 1-1.5 mm in length. Found on the underside of a chinese hat leaf. It's bright orange in color and rests parallel to the leaf veins. It seems to avoid light and when I turned the leaf upside down, it ran to the other side.

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Comments (2)

I agree with JohanHeyns. This looks like a Velvet Mite. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trombidiidae

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PublishedJune 10, 2012

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