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5 unusual facts about Mite


Bat-Mite

This story featured protestors with picket signs shouting "We want Bat-Mite!" outside the Tishman Building (where DC's editorial offices were located at the time), and was accompanied by an editorial comment that this story was published specifically to acknowledge the actual requests of fans for this character's revival.

Dyna-mite

The song was a "catchy rocker" that became a top five hit in the UK Singles Chart reaching number four.

The New Adventures of Batman

Complicating matters is Bat-Mite, a well-meaning imp from another dimension called Ergo, who considers himself Batman's biggest fan.

In September 1968, before The New Adventures of Batman Filmation Associates had created and aired an animated Batman series (pre-Bat-Mite), named The Batman/Superman Hour, for CBS.

Ziziphus mauritiana

Mites forms scale-like galls on twigs retarding growth and reducing the fruit crop.Lesser pests include a small caterpillar, Meridarches scyrodes, that bores into the fruit.


A. hystrix

Abacarus hystrix, the cereal rust mite or grain rust mite, a mite species

Aceria

Aceria sheldoni Ewing 1937 – citrus bud mite

Aceria sheldoni

As well as the direct damage caused by this species, the hollows caused in affected fruit encourage infestation by other pests including the citrus mealybug, Planococcus citri and the two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae.

Amblyseius tsugawai

This oval mite, less than 0.5 mm in length, is only known from apple trees on Honshū, Japan.

Androlaelaps schaeferi

Androlaelaps schaeferi (formerly known as Gromphadorholaelaps schaeferi) is a mite that lives on the Madagascar hissing cockroach (Gromphadorhina portentosa).

Barney Sedran

Nicknamed "Mighty Mite", the New York City native who grew up on the Lower East Side, Sedran (shortened from Sedransky) was a member of the well-known New York Whirlwinds and Cleveland Rosenblums, among many other teams in New York as well as in Carbondale, Pennsylvania.

Brevipalpus phoenicis

In the state of Florida, this mite is known to infest Aphelandra, gardenia, grapefruit, hibiscus, holly, ligustrum, lemon, lime, orange, pecan and viburnum.

Charvel

After purchasing the company, Grover Jackson tooled to produce guitar bodies, which were sold to Mighty Mite and Dimarzio.

Chlordimeform

Chlordimeform is an acaricide (pesticide) active mainly against motile forms of mites and ticks and against eggs and early instars of some Lepidoptera insects.

Dyshidrosis

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled cross-over study by the University Medical Center Groningen reported that dishydrosis outbreaks on the hands increased significantly among those allergic to house dust mites, following inhalation of house dust mite allergen.

Eriophyes

Eriophyes tiliae (Pagenstecher 1857), Eriophyid Mite

Eriophyidae

Aceria malherbae, the bindweed gall mite, an agent of biological control against field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis)

Aceria chondrillae, the chondrilla gall mite, an agent of biological control against skeleton weed (Chondrilla juncea)

European dark bee

This is a hybrid breed whose progeny includes salvaged remnants of the British black bee, nearly extinct by then due to Acarapis woodi (acarine mite).

Gardiner's Seychelles frog

Gardiner's frog is a terrestrial frog, feeding on small invertebrates including mites, sciarid larvae, ants, and amphipods.

Honey bee mite

Varroa destructor, Bee mite that attacks honey bee s Apis cerana and Apis mellifera.

John H. Adams

Born in Carlisle, Arkansas, John Adams was nicknamed the "Iola Mite" for his boyhood home in Iola, Kansas.

Mooney M-18 Mite

The Mite was designed by Al Mooney and was intended as a personal airplane marketed to fighter pilots returning from World War II.

Orthohalarachne

There is almost 100% prevalence of infestation of the nasal mite in the northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) on the Pribilof Islands.

Pseudarmadillo cristatus

Six of the paratypes are in the same amber specimen as a spider, a mite, and a myrmicine ant, while the two juvenile paratypes are in a single amber also.

R. palustris

Radfordia palustris, a species of mite in the subgenus Hesperomyobia of the genus Radfordia.

Ravenglass

It is located at the estuary of three rivers: the Esk, Mite and Irt.

Riccardoella limacum

The slug mite was first identified in 1710 by entomologist René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur.

Russell Conwell

On June 28, 1886, A nearby house at the corner of Broad and Berks streets, referred to as The Temple because the property owner did not want the house to be called a church until the mortgage was fully paid, was investigated for purchase by the Wiatt Mite Society, which was organized for the purpose of taking the 57 cents and enlarging on them sufficiently to buy the property for the Primary Department of the Sunday school.

Steneotarsonemus spinki

On July 13, 2007, the United States Department of Agriculture confirmed the presence the panicle rice mite at a rice research facility in Alvin, Brazoria County, Texas.

Syringophilosis borini

Syringophilosis borini (Bochkoz & Mironov,1999, is a mite that parasitizes the Garden Warbler, Sylvia borin, from which it derives its name.

Trombidiidae

The oil from the red velvet mite Trombidium grandissimum called "Teej" in Hindi is used in traditional Indian medicine to treat paralysis.

Tyrophagus putrescentiae

This original description covered both a mite and a springtail, collected from garden soil, flower pots and rotting leaves at an undisclosed location in the Austrian Empire, and provided too little information for the mite to be confidently assigned to any family.

Varroa sensitive hygiene

Varroa sensitive hygiene (VSH) is a behavioral trait of honey bees (Apis mellifera) in which bees detect and remove bee pupae that are infested by the parasitic mite Varroa destructor.

Vasates quadripedes

Vasates quadripedes, the maple bladder-gall mite, is an eriophyid mite in the genus Vasates, which causes galls on the leaves of silver maple (Acer saccharinum), red maple (A. rubrum), and sugar maple (A. saccharum).

Vladimir Pešić

Vladimir Pešić is a scientist from Montenegro, a biologist who is an expert on Hydrachnidiae, the water mites, and a co-author taxon authority for a new species of freshwater snail Valvata montenegrina Glöer & Pešić, 2008 (Valvatidae, Gastropoda).

WENZ

In 1975, Beasley Broadcast Group purchased the station from Multicom for $550,000, and changed the call letters to WDMT ("Dyno-mite", which happened to be a well known catch phrase on the popular sitcom Good Times).


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