Host is Nicrophorus pustulatus (Pustulated Carrion Beetle)
Host is Nicrophorus pustulatus (Pustulated Carrion Beetle)
At blacklight after dark in small overgrown remnant prairie on top of west-facing cliff within matrix of mixed forest overlooking open and forested wetland. All individuals photographed.
on a Nicrophorus orbicollis https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/125719752
About ten extracted from wet Quercus leaf litter via Tullgren funnel, collected, all appear to be mesostig nymphs as best i can tell... Photos of one of them taken at the California Academy of Sciences.
Observed by Frida Utami. Uploaded with permission
Approx 20mm long beetle
mites on burying beetle