Dear Jean-Michel:

I'm not pretty sure if I can help you. It seems to be a Varroa destructor, but with just a microscopy picture is very hard to be sure about that.

If you could send me some more pictures and a little description, then it may be possible for me to help you to identify de mite.

I'd like to have two differents kinds of photos, ones micro and the others macro with bees.

Let us to stay in contact.

Alfredo.

Dear Jean-Michel

Varroa destructor is not like this photo mite. It is parasite of the bee hives. I'm not very sure, but maybe is the family of Tenuipalpidae. It is not easy to determine by a microscopic preparation.

Dear Friends, thanks for your answer! I m agree with Dapoto; I m a beekeeper and this mites is not a varroa. I think first to Cheylettiella because of the pliers at head level but it s look different in Cheyletiella...

Dear Jean-Michael, the mite is an Astigmatid mite, commonly known as part of house dust mites. It is not my area, but I think it is of Family Glycyphagidae. Maybe genus Euroglyphus?

Cheers,

Pablo

hi Pablo,

Yes, I ve got a answer from prof O Connor and he thinks like you, a common dust mite. It s the first time I ve seen one with claws . So the only problem in this house is Pyemotes.

Thanks!!!        JMichel