This looks very much to me like a velvet mite https://bugguide.net/node/view/2419 To my knowledge all of these mites are either predatory or parasitic (on animals) as young, and predatory on insect eggs as adults.
*Jeffrey Taylor *IPM Specialist Division of Animal Health and Conservation Zoo New England 617-989-2047 1 Franklin Park Road | Boston, MA 02121 On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 3:57 PM Brenna K. Campbell < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > A visitor to our reading room notified a staff member that he was seeing > small red bugs near/on the collection he was consulting. The staff member > trapped one of the critters, which you can see in the attached photo. > > Am I right in thinking that this is a clover mite or something similar? > > Am I also right that mites of this kind are most likely coming in from the > outside, rather than living in/on a manuscript collection? > > Thanks, > > Brenna > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Museumpests" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/pestlist. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/3CDA36CC-3580-456A-9562-346E6C653A11%40princeton.edu > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Museumpests" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/pestlist. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/CA%2Bqio8UJU4Wg%2BnxE6FjJfCDOq6VqztNOdmPYENudGtW%2BZ3ovnA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
