Mar 16, 2020
Phoresy: mites hitchhiking on burying beetles
Nicrophorus vespillo Linnaeus, 1758, infested with Poecilichirus mites, Denmark (Donald Hobern, Flickr CC)
Phoresy, which is also called phoresis, is an association between two organisms, where one travels on the body of another, without being a parasite or causing it any harm. In this case, the hitchhiker is a mite, which attaches itself to a beetle, solely for the purpose of travel (above). The…
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