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Very strange! (NL)
blaauw7
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Posted on 19-06-2025 21:56
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 Very strange! Found today on light. Mid Netherlands. Multiple specimens. All with small red dots on the head. Mites? Anyone have any idea what this is/are?

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 Yes, mites. Water mites , probably parasitic preadult stage.
WWW.ntu.edu/museum has a good article on "water mites and midges"
A beautiful hypothesis can be slain by an ugly fact.
 
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 The fly looks like Ceratopogonini or Culicoides.
 
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 Thanks Philippe and John TumbsUp

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