. Animal parasites and human disease. Medical parasitology; Insects as carriers of disease. 334 THE MITES bites or stings — it does neither; worse than either, it just ; The adult harvest mites (Fig. 137) are law abiding members of the community, and attack only such animals as plant-lice, cater- pillars and other insects. They hibernate in soil or sheltered crevices and in the spring lay their eggs, several hundred apiece, in the ground or among dead %A iii^ leaves. The eggs are very small, round and brownish in color, and were once classified as fungous growths! The. Fig. 136. E
. Animal parasites and human disease. Medical parasitology; Insects as carriers of disease. 334 THE MITES bites or stings — it does neither; worse than either, it just ; The adult harvest mites (Fig. 137) are law abiding members of the community, and attack only such animals as plant-lice, cater- pillars and other insects. They hibernate in soil or sheltered crevices and in the spring lay their eggs, several hundred apiece, in the ground or among dead %A iii^ leaves. The eggs are very small, round and brownish in color, and were once classified as fungous growths! The. Fig. 136. European red-bug, Leplus au- lumnalis, larva of a. Trombidium usually thought to be T. holosericeum. X 150. (After Hirst.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Chandler, Asa Crawford, 1891-. New York, J. Wiley
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