Found a brown mite on my hissing cockroach

Venomous Fang

Arachnoknight
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I was checking on my roach when I saw a brown mite on his leg is this a beneficial mite or a harmful someone please let me know if it’s harmless or not or if I should take it off
 

MasterOogway

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Beneficial most likely. They have a symbiotic mite species that lives on them and helps kind of 'clean' them.
 
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