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08-08-2006, 05:56 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Gloucester
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I guess they are ticks??  |
08-08-2006, 06:03 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2006
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They are mites- plenty around this year- I've seen them on various insects + harvestmen. |
08-08-2006, 06:48 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Gloucester
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thank you aeshna, since delving into the macro world I'm seeing more and more butterflies with them on |
08-08-2006, 06:58 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2006
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fantastic....you just answered this for me /us at the Kent wildlife trust....one of the common blue i caught during our butterfly survey last week at queendown warren had one of these red face huggers.....as we didnt know what it was we decided he had a new lip piercing he was showing off !  |  |
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