. Entomology for medical officers. Insect pests; Insects as carriers of disease. ORDER ACARINA: THE MITES 291 ending in a claw and often a sucker; in the first two pairs of legs there is usually a clubbed hair near the base of the tarsi, and a very long hair near the base of the preceding joint. These mites eat almost anything, and often do great damage to dried provisions, flour, grain and other seeds, drugs, hay, museum specimens, entomological collections, etc. They multiply very rapidly. The larva has three pairs of legs, and either proceeds by successive moults, in the ordinary way, to th
. Entomology for medical officers. Insect pests; Insects as carriers of disease. ORDER ACARINA: THE MITES 291 ending in a claw and often a sucker; in the first two pairs of legs there is usually a clubbed hair near the base of the tarsi, and a very long hair near the base of the preceding joint. These mites eat almost anything, and often do great damage to dried provisions, flour, grain and other seeds, drugs, hay, museum specimens, entomological collections, etc. They multiply very rapidly. The larva has three pairs of legs, and either proceeds by successive moults, in the ordinary way, to the adult stage; or may, after reaching the eight- legged nymph stage, transform into a quiescent Hypopus stage in which it emigrates abroad by affixing itself to some. 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 Alcock, A. (Alfred), 1859-1933. London, Gurney & Jackson
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