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Buttonbush Mite

Aceria cephalanthi

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) sambiology, some rights reserved (CC BY)

28 photos

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Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Massachusetts.January 0, February 0, March 0, April 0, May 0, June 11, July 28, August 33, September 19, October 8, November 0, December 0.
Massachusetts99
Ohio55
Maryland46
Illinois41
New Jersey39
New Hampshire33
Indiana28
Ontario25
Louisiana19
District of Columbia17

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassArachnids · Arachnida
OrderSarcoptiformes
FamilyGall and Rust Mites · Eriophyidae
GenusAceria

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Buttonbush Mite with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.