MITES - (Acari)

Biology and Management

Mites have 2 body divisions including a combined head and thorax, or cephalothorax, which has no antennae, and an abdomen. They have 4 pairs of legs, sometimes three pairs when first hatched, and no wings.


331px-Sarcoptes scabiei 1950 000

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