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	<title>The Backyard Arthropod Project &#187; Mites</title>
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	<description>A Field Guide to the North Side of Old Mill Hill, Atlantic Mine, MI</description>
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		<title>Small Dung Beetle &#8211; Calamosternus</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/07/09/small-dung-beetle-calamosternus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 10:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam found this little (only about 5 mm long) beetle for me on May 21, 2011 (Yes! It is from this year!). It was determined to make life difficult for me by running around, so this is the best shot I could get while it was upright. Once upside down, it seemed more or less [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Masses of black mites with red legs &#8211; Clover mites</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/03/12/masses-of-black-mites-with-red-legs-clover-mites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 10:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a large boulder in the front yard that the girls and I like to play on (Sandy bought it for me on my birthday a couple of years ago. She got it at the gravel pit in Hancock. It&#8217;s about 6 feet in diameter. I&#8217;m very fond of it). It is gradually weathering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Engorged Deer Tick</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/01/01/engorged-deer-tick/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/01/01/engorged-deer-tick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 10:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past, our tick season had almost exclusively been April-June, with the primary tick species being the Wood Tick, Dermacentor variabilis. But then, on October 30 of 2010, Sandy was petting the dog and found this: &#8220;This&#8221; being a blood-engorged female tick. It was about the size of a raisin, which was actually a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sexton Beetle, with Hitch-Hiking Mites</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/10/09/sexton-beetle-with-hitch-hiking-mites/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/10/09/sexton-beetle-with-hitch-hiking-mites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 10:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[August]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carrion beetles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this beetle in the bare ground next to our garage on August 10. It is similar, but not identical, to some that we found eating a dead mouse about three years ago: This is definitely one of the Sexton Beetles, genus Nicrophorus, which are large and pretty distinctively colored carrion beetles. They are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How the Monarchs Die</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/09/11/how-the-monarchs-die/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/09/11/how-the-monarchs-die/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 10:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[velvet mites]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[caterpillar]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[It's not easy being a bug]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was a good year locally for Monarch butterflies. We have a lot of milkweed growing around the place, and in particular there is a smooth-leaved variety growing back in the woods that the Monarchs really like. Around the middle of July, it was to the point that practically every milkweed plant had at least [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Carrion Beetle</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/07/24/american-carrion-beetle/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/07/24/american-carrion-beetle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 10:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[S_ found this large (probably 2 cm long), distinctive beetle in front of our garage on June 12. It is very clearly an American Carrion Beetle, Necrophila americana. I actually think that this beetle species has already appeared on this site, as a larva. They have sensitive-looking antennae which would be very helpful for sniffing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mosquito with Mite Larvae</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/06/26/mosquito-with-mite-larvae/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/06/26/mosquito-with-mite-larvae/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 10:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/?p=1781</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;So naturalists observe a flea/ has smaller fleas that on him prey/ And these have smaller still to bite &#8216;em/ And so proceed, ad infinitum&#8221; &#8211; Jonathan Swift S_ spotted this mosquito in the house, and requested that I eliminate it. It then landed on the window screen, and I noticed something odd about it. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Velvet Mite</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2008/08/02/velvet-mite/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2008/08/02/velvet-mite/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I put out what was supposed to be a cricket trap[1] a few days ago, but didn&#8217;t catch any crickets. What I did catch were some woodlice, something that looks like a carrion beetle larva, but I keep finding them scampering around where there is no evidence of any carrion, a stone centipede, and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Varroa mite</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2007/10/06/i-hate-these-sooo-much/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2007/10/06/i-hate-these-sooo-much/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2007 12:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[found in beehive]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate these soooo much . . . This is one that, as a hobbyist beekeeper, I am all too familiar with: This is a varroa mite, Varroa destructor[1]. They are a parasite of honey bees, derived from a parasite of the asiatic honey bee Apis cerana. The asiatic honey bee has established a stable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wood Ticks</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2007/05/12/tick-time/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2007/05/12/tick-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2007 20:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2007/09/22/tick-time/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, once again, it&#8217;s Tick Time. They hang out on tall objects (mostly dead weed stems and the sides of buildings) with their little front legs outstreched, and grab on when someone brushes past unsuspectingly. They don&#8217;t bite right away, so we usually find them when they are still crawling around looking for a place [...]]]></description>
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