Any arthropod of the subclass ACARI except the TICKS. They are minute animals related to the spiders, usually having transparent or semitransparent bodies. They may be parasitic on humans and domestic animals, producing various irritations of the skin (MITE INFESTATIONS). Many mite species are important to human and veterinary medicine as both parasite and vector. Mites also infest plants.
    

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Poultry mites : how to control them / [prepared by the Entomology Research Branch, Agricultural Research Service]

Red mites and typhus / by J.R. Audy.

The mites of stored food / A.M. Hughes.

Mites injurious to domestic animals : (with an appendix on the Acarine disease of hive bees) / by Stanley Hirst.

The distribution of insects, spiders, and mites in the air / by P.A. Glick.

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Red mites and typhus / by J.R. Audy.

The mites of stored food / A.M. Hughes.

Mites injurious to domestic animals : (with an appendix on the Acarine disease of hive bees) / by Stanley Hirst.

The distribution of insects, spiders, and mites in the air / by P.A. Glick.

Poultry mites : how to control them / [prepared by the Entomology Research Branch, Agricultural Research Service]