Carbon dioxide mite removal and enumeration (Parasitidae)

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Description

Phoretic mites were removed from beetle hosts using focused carbon dioxide gas delivered through a pipette tip, which temporarily incapacitated both mites and beetles for counting and size classification.

Typical Equipment

• carbon dioxide
• pipette tip

Output Measurements

• mite abundance per host
• mite size class distribution

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