Orbitida (Mites)

[Wolfram1]

Just as a reference.
When cleaning out the dish i was confronted by dead soil mites (Orbitida sp.).


Harmless to the spiders but it was high time to clean this.

here are some further references to these mites:

All about oribatid mites - A Chaos of Delight

The oribatid mites, aka, beetle, moss or box mites are a slow moving order of soil mesofauna, known as Oribatida.

www.chaosofdelight.org

 

[Biollantefan54]

One of my favorite mite families! So many cool kinds. I love photographing them!