{"id":17490,"date":"2018-05-14T09:33:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T07:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=17490"},"modified":"2018-05-14T09:33:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T07:33:35","slug":"velvet-mites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=17490","title":{"rendered":"Velvet mites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the moment there are many of these tiny red so-called velvet mites (probably <em>Trombidium holosericeum<\/em>) crawling around hunting on open soi<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">l and compost in the garden. I knew almost nothing about them, but just discovered that the larvae attach themselves to spiders, harvestmen and insects as in this picture&#8230;I&#8217;d seen this before in the garden but hadn&#8217;t realised before! 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