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<blockquote data-quote="Geek" data-source="post: 2326140" data-attributes="member: 246624">I&#039;ve heard of &quot;carrion beetles&quot; but this is more like a &quot;carry-on beetle&quot;:<img src="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/upload/2010/09/strange_insect_encounter_carri/insect_mobbed_by_mites.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Amanda and I were outside the cabin in Cass County, Minnesota last week, cutting pieces of plywood for sub flooring, and we saw this creature among the debris.&nbsp; At first I thought it was some kind of wasp covered with tiny spiders, but on further investigation it turned out to be a beetle covered with mites. When we first saw it, there were many more mites than in this photo, and they were virtually roiling on the insect&#039;s surface.&nbsp; It looked almost as though the insect was foaming.&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/09/strange_insect_encounter_carri.php" target="_blank">Read the rest of this post...</a> | <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/09/strange_insect_encounter_carri.php#commentsArea" target="_blank">Read the comments on this post...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~4/QLGja2buHds" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~3/QLGja2buHds/strange_insect_encounter_carri.php" target="_blank">More...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Geek, post: 2326140, member: 246624"] I've heard of "carrion beetles" but this is more like a "carry-on beetle": [IMG]http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/upload/2010/09/strange_insect_encounter_carri/insect_mobbed_by_mites.jpg[/IMG] Amanda and I were outside the cabin in Cass County, Minnesota last week, cutting pieces of plywood for sub flooring, and we saw this creature among the debris. At first I thought it was some kind of wasp covered with tiny spiders, but on further investigation it turned out to be a beetle covered with mites. When we first saw it, there were many more mites than in this photo, and they were virtually roiling on the insect's surface. It looked almost as though the insect was foaming. [URL="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/09/strange_insect_encounter_carri.php"]Read the rest of this post...[/URL] | [URL="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/09/strange_insect_encounter_carri.php#commentsArea"]Read the comments on this post...[/URL][IMG]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~4/QLGja2buHds[/IMG] [url=http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~3/QLGja2buHds/strange_insect_encounter_carri.php]More...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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