Hello fellow acarologists,

Can someone help me with the construction of a kind of bibliographical reference guide?

I 'm especially searching after identification guides abouts ticks and mites in addition to those I already have...

Thank you,

Gie

I am looking for a list of publications with illustrations regarding mites found on raptors.
Thank you in advance for any help you can give me regarding this request.
 

staft@uwsp.edu

Dear Acarophiles:

I'm writing a chapter directed towards non-acarologists discussing 'mites associated with other animals'.  Constructing a list of ALL the associations would be far too onerous a task; instead, I'm compiling a list of 'the most astonishing and unlikely mite-animal associations'.  For example, two associations that I personally find astonishing are the Cloacaridae in the cloacas of turtles, and Gastronyssus bakeri in the stomach mucosa of fruit-eating bats.

Rather than making this list completely subjective, I thought I'd survey mite people to find out the examples they find most bewildering.  So please, send me the mite-animal (vert. or invert.) associations that you use to liven up cocktail parties or to shock somnolent students.

Cheers,
Heather
__________________

Dr Heather C Proctor
Department of Entomology
University of Queensland
St Lucia QLD 4072
Australia

email: H.Proctor@mailbox.uq.edu.au
Tele.  +61-07-3365-1564
Fax. +617-3365-1922
___________________

Dear Heather,

I am sure that mites Rob Colwell and I work on are not nearly as astonishing as Gastronyssus from bat's stomach but still... At least three genera of Ascidae (Mesostigmata), Tropicoseius, Rhinoseius
and some species of Proctolaelaps, are known as hummingbird flower mites. Although they feed and breed in flowers, they have quite an unusual way of getting around. When a hummingbird sticks its bill into a flower, they quickly run up the bill and hide in its nasal cavities. They sit there and wait for the moment when the hummingbird reaches another flower of exactly the same species of plant from which they departed. When the hummingbird starts feeding,  they quickly disembark. The speed with which they have to run on the bill before the bird flies away is comparable (taking into account the difference in size, of course) to that of a cheetah. The mites use the fact that hummingbirds breathe with the rate of 100-300 breaths/minute to obtain olfactory information about the species of flower they are approaching. Frequently, several different species of mites reside in the nasal cavity of the bird and they always leave at precisely right moment to colonize their particular species of plant.

Best regard, Piotr

Piotr Naskrecki
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Connecticut, Storrs CT 06269, USA

e-mail: pin93001@uconnvm.uconn.edu

Orthoptera Species File Online (http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/Orthoptera)
- a database of the Orthoptera of the World

Katydids of La Selva Biological Station Costa Rica
(http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/interkey/titlepg)

Taxonomy and Collection Manager software
(http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/interkey/database.html)

Dear Heather,
  I may have something to add later on, but in case you have not seen it, the poem by John Updike called *Mites*, published in the *New Yorker* for July 18, 1988, in a sense says it all on your subject of mite relations with other animals and, for that matter, the cosmos.  As a non-acarologist, he missed the boat a few times on factual matters, but I suggest that we be tolerant.   Here it is to you and the acarology group so that it may be shared by all.

A house dust mite (*Dermatophagoides farinae*)
is not a house-mouse mite (*Liponyssoides sanguineus*)
any more than speaking Portuguese is speaking Manx
or an elephant is a hyrax, though both are ungulates.

To be a mite at all!  To be so small
you can rest as in a bunk bed beneath a flea's scales,
or expend a lifetime in a single chicken feather
or the mite-pouch (acarinarium) of a carpenter bee!

To dwell happy in the mouth of a long-nosed bat,
like one species of Macronyssidae's protonymph,
causing tissue destruction and loss of teeth,
or beneath the skin of a mammal, creating mange!

Think how nature slaved over these arrangements.
Thirty thousand species of acarines,
fifty from the Antarctic alone, and some found
three miles up Everest, or a mile down in the sea!

Itch mites, cheese mites, monkey-lung mites, each
making its way through the several larval stages
to an awkward copulation (discounting
parthenogenetic ticks) and easy death --

what fresh perspectives!  Specks of our shed skin
delicious boulders, our human pores
lubricious dish-shaped living rooms, and particles
our largeness elides palpable to mites, who loom

in the scanning electron microscopes's patient gray
light as many-tentacled, with chelicerae,
as hobbled as stegasaurs by their quaint
 equipment, as endearing as baffled bears,

these mini-spiders characterized by
lack of a waist, lateral eyes, and tininess.
We marvel; we pity; we loathe; we try to forget
perspectives from which WE are smaller yet.
 

Regards,

Frank
 

Frank J. Radovsky
Dept. of Entomolgy
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR, USA

On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Heather Proctor wrote:

> Dear Acarophiles:
>
> I'm writing a chapter directed towards non-acarologists discussing 'mites
> associated with other animals'.  Constructing a list of ALL the
> associations would be far too onerous a task; instead, I'm compiling a list
> of 'the most astonishing and unlikely mite-animal associations'.  For
> example, two associations that I personally find astonishing are the
> Cloacaridae in the cloacas of turtles, and Gastronyssus bakeri in the
> stomach mucosa of fruit-eating bats.
>
> Rather than making this list completely subjective, I thought I'd survey
> mite people to find out the examples they find most bewildering.  So
> please, send me the mite-animal (vert. or invert.) associations that you
> use to liven up cocktail parties or to shock somnolent students.
>
> Cheers,
> Heather
> __________________
>
> Dr Heather C Proctor
> Department of Entomology
> University of Queensland
> St Lucia QLD 4072
> Australia
>
 > email: H.Proctor@mailbox.uq.edu.au
> Tele.  +61-07-3365-1564
> Fax. +617-3365-1922
> ___________________
>

CC: AGCAN.INTERNET("acarology@nhm.ac.uk")

Dear fellow acarologists,

I've been reviewing the defences that soil mites have against their predators, and I've been finding a reasonable repertoire:
jumping - Nanorchestes, Terpnacarus, Eupodes, Zetorchetes, an undescribed Cercomegistine from Australian rainforests
armour - oribatids, mesostigmatans, labidostommatids, some stigmaeids etc.
thanatosis - scutacarids, allothyrids, oribatids
elongate and/or erectile setae - acarids, Cosmochthonius, Ctenacarus etc.
silk - many Prostigmata
chemicals - ?

The only terrestrial mites I know of that produce a chemical defence (as opposed to fatal flatulence) are Allothyrus spp.; however, there must be others.  Does anyone have any suggested additions to this list?

Cheers,

Dave Walter

Dr David Evans Walter
Department of Entomology
The University of Queensland
St Lucia, QLD 4072 Australia

phone: 07-3365-1564
fax: 07-3365-1922

Dear All:

Many thanks to the numerous acarologists and parasitologists who sent me their choices for 'astonishing sites for mites'.  Favourites included moth-ear mites, human facial mites, sea-snake lung mites, and sloth-bum mites.  Particular thanks to Frank Radovsky for posting the wonderful poem
by John Updike.  I'm sure  it's been printed out and posted on bulletin boards in many an acarologist's office.

Cheers,
Heather
__________________

Dr Heather C Proctor
Department of Entomology
University of Queensland
St Lucia QLD 4072
Australia

email: H.Proctor@mailbox.uq.edu.au
Tele.  +61-07-3365-1564
Fax. +617-3365-1922
___________________

Oops! Just tried the old email address and had it sent back! I'll try this and hope your still connected! regards, J.
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> From: J. Battigelli <jbattige@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
> To: Mark_Zonneveld@halton.tor.hookup.net
> Subject: Re: Happy birthday.....
> Date: December 8, 1997 07:23
>
> Hey Proud  Parental Units!
> How are things? We looked at your pics on the web and everyone looks happy and healthy! It is
> truly a happy time with little ones around. We finally got snow this weekend and expect to have
> a white christmas.  School is going along.  I hope to start the last part of my analysis before the
> holiday season and will start serious writing in January. No word on work yet but I've lots of 'irons
> in the fire' and hope something will appear.  Mom is living in Fernie now.  HSe's been up here to
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> but who knows?!  Dad a Carrol are doing well. They just finished up some renovations at Trout
> Lake where they will spend their winters. They will be in Florida for a couple of months in '98.
> Patrick did get to visit with them in September. Kate went back to work last wednesday! We've
> got someone coming into the house to look after the boys on Thursdays and Fridays and  Kate's
> mom will look after them on every second Wed. She is enjoying the change of pace but would
> like it if we won the lottery so she could spend time at home with the boys! Graeme's up now so
> I've got to got and get him started for the day. Take care! Best wishes. Safe travels back home to
> snow-country! Look forward to hearing from you soon!
> Aloha,
 
 

> Jeff

Dear all,

Perhaps someone out there would have a copy of the following two papers.

Deegener, P. 1917. Versuch zu eimen System der Associations - und Sozietatsformen in Tierreiche. Zoologische Anzeigungen 49: 1-16.

Lesne, P. 1896. Loeurs du Limosina sacra Meig. Phenomenes de transport mutuel chez les animaux articules. Origine du parasitisme chez les Insectes dipteres. Bulletin Societe Entomologique de France 1896: 162-165.

If anyone has these two publications would he/she please be so kind to send me a copy. If costs are attached please let me know the prize and how I could send it to you.

I would be very grateful for your response,

A. M. Camerik
Dept. of Zoology
University of the Witswaterrand
Wits 2050
Johannesburg
South Africa

Hello everybody,

Thanks to Lars Lundqvist I will receive the previously reqested papers of Deegener and Lesne.

Thank you all for your responses.

A. M. Camerik

Friends,

Does anyone have the e-mail address or fax number for the following acarologists?

G. Oldfield, Riverside, California
E. Westphal, Strasbourg, France
Y. Yananek, Benin, west Africa
G. C. Brown, Kentucky USA

Thank you for your help.
 

Bruce Halliday

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CSIRO Division of Entomology
GPO Box 1700
Canberra ACT 2601
Australia

Email bruceh@ento.csiro.au

Telephone (02) 6246 4085   International 61-2-6246 4085
Fax (02) 6246 4000   International 61-2-6246 4000
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Greetings all!
My extreme apologies to everyone for sending a note to list which should have gone to a friend downunder. The addresses were right next to each other and apparently I clucked when I should have clicked.  Regards,
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Jeff Battigelli
Dept. of Biological Sciences
CW-405 Biolgical Sciences Bldg.
University of Alberta      Voice:(403) 492-0463
Edmonton,  AB              FAX : (403)492-9234
T6G 2E9                    Email: jbattige@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca
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Dear friends,

Many thanks to all those people who helped with the addresses of the people I was looking for.

The International Congress of Acarology registration forms are being sent out now. We look forward to seeing you all next July.
 

Bruce Halliday

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Dr. R. B. Halliday
CSIRO Division of Entomology
GPO Box 1700
Canberra ACT 2601
Australia

Email bruceh@ento.csiro.au

Telephone (02) 6246 4085   International 61-2-6246 4085
Fax (02) 6246 4000   International 61-2-6246 4000
http://www.ento.csiro.au/research/natres/natres.html
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I need to know where a ticks niche is and where its habitat is. Also, About how many babies does it have and teritories. This information is for a school project.  Please reply soon.  Hopefully before monday!
Thanks!

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Dear acarologists,

Thanks to all those who sent in other examples of mites on guard.   Some of the most interesting additions included:

Y. Kuwahara and collaborators work on alarm pheromones in acarids etc.

Wauthy et al.'s leaping Indotritia cf heterotrichia (Comptes rendus de l'Academie des Sciences
(Paris)/ Life Science, 320: 315-317).

Metastriate ticks using defensive chemicals to avoid ant predation (another apomorphy with the Allothyridae) - (Yoder et al. 1993, J. Insect Physiol.39: 429-435).

Tuckerella flicking off cheyletids with its whip setae (these mites are abundant in soil samples in Australia, so close enough to a soil mite) (Ochoa, 1989 IJA 15(4)205-207)

Cheers,

Dave Walter

Dr David Evans Walter
Department of Entomology
The University of Queensland
St Lucia, QLD 4072 Australia

phone: 07-3365-1564
fax: 07-3365-1922