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Photo by OmegaRag
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Field Notes

Habitat:

Found it on monte alban ruins

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (3)

Sorry, but the ones that i actually saw were about the size of my Fingernails. And they didn't look as scary as those red mites that you both talk about. But thanks.
It looks like a species of velvet mite to me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trombidiidae.
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PublishedAugust 5, 2011

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