Can we define "Phoresy" of Broad mites?

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Lars Podsiadlowski

Phoresy=

"a nonparasitic relationship in which one species is carried about by another."

- I guess the mites go on insects to get on other host plants?

Vahid Rahiminejad

look at this paper:

How species-specific is the phoretic relationship

between the broad mite, Polyphagotarsonemus latus

(Acari: Tarsonemidae), and its insect hosts?

PALEVSKY, E.1,∗, SOROKER, V.1, WEINTRAUB, P.2, MANSOUR, F.3,

ABO-MOCH, F.3 and GERSON, U.4

Experimental and Applied Acarology 25: 217–224, 2001.