Latin: Acarus siro (synonyms are Tyroglyphus farinae and Aleurobius farinae). Also called forage mite. A white, oval mite with red or yellow legs. It can be up to 0.65 mm long. The main characteristic of the flour mite is that the male has a large, thorn-shaped outgrowth on the first pair of legs. The flour […]
Flour mite
( Latin: Acarus siro) This is the commonest species of mite in foodstuffs; it has reddish legs. Flour mites can live in almost any kind of flour or in fodder and, not least important, in stores of seed and corn. They are also to be found on old cheese. A single female can lay up […]