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Small red bug walking among leaves near a creek.
The bright red color caught my eye. Some kind of mite or tick?
Based on the location, this is not T. grandissimum, but a velvet mite in the family Trombidiidae.
I'm unsure of its scientific name, but these are commonly called red velvet mites. They are very cool and fuzzy-looking under magnification
