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Mite Fragments Through the Microscope

Mite Fragments

This is most of a mite, through fragmented. It was on an environmental tapelift collected in an office area.

Transmitted Oblique Illumination

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Mite fragments can often be identified to some level. (See Hughes, THE MITES OF STORED FOOD, 1961)