Latin: Tyrolichus casei. Up to 0.7 mm long, whitish body with yellowish or red legs. The cheese mite is the most common of the mites that live in cheese and in places where cheese is stored. The cheese mite prefers substrates with available protein and high-fat foods. It cannot dig into cheese, but infests cheese […]
Cheese mite
( Latin: Tyrophagus casei) Cheese mites can also live in corn, flour, etc., but they are best known for their occurrence in cheese, in which they gnaw small holes. A ripe, mite-infested cheese will be more or less covered with a grey powder, which consists of the mites themselves and their moulted skins and faeces. […]