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Mite

Description:

Bright red mite.

Habitat:

This was in a garden in New York City. The mites were found underneath some old rusted cans.

Notes:

I put in a picture with a rusted razor blade to show scale. I took this photo with an olloclip macro lens for my iPhone.

1 Species ID Suggestions

Velvet Mite
Trombidiidae sp. Red Mite - BugGuide.Net


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1 Comment

MayraSpringmann
MayraSpringmann 11 years ago

Nice color!!!

Yasser
Spotted by
Yasser

NYC, New York, USA

Spotted on May 13, 2012
Submitted on May 13, 2012

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