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bugzhayter
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Wed Sep 28 2011 14:08:05
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I asked this question yesterday and received no answer, I am hoping to find help by running it by a different crowd today. I found this yesterday, because of its very small size it's hard to say what it is. I researched for hours yesterday. Because of the curly legs I am inclined to think it's a mite or a tick nymph, but not 100% sure.
It took me a long time to discern with fair certainty that it has eight legs in total rather than the six I had originally though I saw. I redid the drawing (couldn't get my camera to pick it up) as I thought the original I drew slightly missed the mark. Besides what you see there are no other details visible, no antenae, nothing that looks like eyes or dots etc.
What appears to be the head area, upon closer inspection in daylight, is more inset (into the body) than I originally drew, it is deep orangy red. The body looks dark red in some lights, reddish brown in others. What in heaven's name is this thing?
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Wed Sep 28 2011 14:17:08
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A velvet mite?
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jrbtnyc
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Wed Sep 28 2011 14:22:52
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Non-expert response: indeed with the eight legs it could be a mite or mite nymph or tick or tick nymph, and can't be any insect such as a bed bug.
Actually you don't want it to be a tick such as a deer tick because ticks, unlike bed bugs, are known to transmit disease. In particular a deer tick can transmit Lyme disease, a serious and chronic ailment. See bedbugger.com tags via:
http://bedbugger.com/forum/tags/lyme .
And as a quick check by looking at a large number of photos of deer ticks you can type « "deer tick" » on Google (include the quotation " " marks to keep the two words together) and then click « Images » at the top which will give you:
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bugzhayter
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Wed Sep 28 2011 14:30:42
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No worries there about Lyme, I have it already and doctors here pretend that it's not possible to have it in this area, this despite the bulls-eye rash I had when I first showed it to a physician. Still thank s for the warning. Any expert opinions are welcome too.
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bugzhayter
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Wed Sep 28 2011 14:36:18
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EffeCi - 15 minutes ago »
A velvet mite?No, I compared it to an image of those already - no similarity, those are bright red all over.
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jrbtnyc
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Wed Sep 28 2011 14:37:46
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As a scattershot approach, since it's going to be quite difficult I think for experts to identify your crawly based on a drawing rather than on a photo, you might try just typing « mites » into Google and then clicking « Images » at the top and peruse the huge number of images to see if you can spot anything that seems to really, really look like your specimen...
...and then do the same with « ticks » ...
...making sure to consider not only adults but immatures as well.
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bugzhayter
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Wed Sep 28 2011 14:55:36
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Yeah, did that and much more already. Thanks for the suggestion though, will look some more when I have time.
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jrbtnyc
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Wed Sep 28 2011 15:01:03
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By the way, on your other thread you were concerned you didn't know how to edit a post.
For the first 60 minutes after you post, you'll see « History Edit » over to the left under your online name, just above where it says « PM This User » . Just click on « Edit » and make your changes.
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bugzhayter
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Wed Sep 28 2011 15:07:01
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Thank you for the mention on how to edit.
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bugzhayter
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Wed Sep 28 2011 18:19:24
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No more insight? I am once again concerned because upon looking again at that darned thing I am not 100% sure it has eight legs...
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Wed Sep 28 2011 18:43:53
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Get a 10-30X magnifier, stick it on a camera, and get an actual picture.
Otherwise find an entomologist and have them ID it.
Jim
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bugzhayter
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Wed Sep 28 2011 21:44:27
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I actually tried taking a pic with a magnifying glass in front of the thing, but that didn't work, I guess I will just have to wait and see. I was just hoping that someone could tell me something to take the creepy feeling away.
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bugzhayter
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Wed Sep 28 2011 22:02:18
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Strange, I cannot get to the edit screen. Anyways, I wanted to say that I stuck the nymph in a bag in the freezer, the red color of it was blood, the blood ran out and made a glob around the nymph. I think it would be hard to photograph it now even if I had a great camera. As for having it ID'd, I'd have to drive 2 hours and spend $100.00 gas. I wish I could afford to do that! Still, thanks for the advice.
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bugzhayter
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Wed Sep 28 2011 22:39:36
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I searched and searched, and when done I searched some more. Just when I thought it had all been in vain, presto! I found the answer, kind of. No definitive answer of what kind of mite it was. Still it did answer the real question I had, was it a threat to my living space?
Most likely not. It seems that it's a mite that's either pet related; or seeing as I found it by the window from outside to my kitchen, it is probably one stray that bid a bird or some other animal and then came to bother me. Anyway, thanks all for trying to help.
It was most like both the top and bottom right images on the link below.
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bugzhayter
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Wed Sep 28 2011 22:45:59
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Naw, still can't get to that edit screen so bear with me with all the answering my own thread... I meant to say on that link that the nymph I had found was most like the top right and second from bottom right images. Thanks, over and out for now... Sleep tight, don't let anything bite...
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