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Field Notes

Notes:

The red dots that apear in this insect's leg are actually parasitic mites.

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Thank you, Chun. There are many of them in the place I took these pictures. Life must be hard for the insects that live there...
The red "balls" are actually mites that live on the host insects as parasites. These occurs to spiders too.
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PublishedNovember 26, 2011

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