Bug identication help please

[MrsSzrid]

I am using my floor insert to monitor varroa drop. I found this today. You should be able to see a dressmaking pin nearby, so it is very small, smaller than varroa. My newly acquired FERA leaflet suggests Braula (I think). There is only one that I can see, newly dropped since yesterday.

Now to see if I can attach photo!

Jacqui

 

[Wingy]

Possible sheep tick? Looks very similar

 

[BernardBlack]

Yes I seen a couple of those today. I just assumed there were just some type of spider or bug. Never really have it any more thought.

Now it's been brought up, a confirmation would be reassuring.

 

[Wingy]

https://hips.hearstapps.com/netdoct...ery-1497268167-sheep-tick-uk.jpg?resize=768:*

Horrible little buggers and right time of year now

 

[Millet]

It looks dodgy when you google tropilaelaps .

Take your pick..

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=L...wiKt_mS_KjbAhVIBsAKHQ8qAYEQ_h0IwwEwCw#imgrc=_

 

[Beefriendly]

Horrible little buggers and right time of year now

I don't think it's a sheep tick,your picture looks to show 6 legs plus antennae. Sheep ticks have no antennae and 8 legs plus it should be larger. I've seen similar insects on inspection boards in the past. Can't remember correct name but harmless.

 

[Millet]

I don't think it's a sheep tick,your picture looks to show 6 legs plus antennae. Sheep ticks have no antennae and 8 legs plus it should be larger. I've seen similar insects on inspection boards in the past. Can't remember correct name but harmless.

100% Certain it is not a sheep tick, you get to familiarize yourself with them when you have pooches that hunt things that carry them, even more so when you have to extract the odd one from your arm pit after carrying things full of them..

 

[Wingy]

I don't think it's a sheep tick,your picture looks to show 6 legs plus antennae. Sheep ticks have no antennae and 8 legs plus it should be larger. I've seen similar insects on inspection boards in the past. Can't remember correct name but harmless.

The picture is definitely 8 legs segmented with hooks at the end as in the picture by the OP. This is the stage before they find a host to feed on and they do transform a few times as they pass from primary to secondary host.
Maybe not a "sheep" tick but one very close I've seen them on grouse, deer, my dogs and me a few times

For confirmation put the little bugger on your arm and see if it embeds those mouth parts in, the usually try to find a moist area, groin, armpit etc.

 

[MrsSzrid]

Too small for a tic I think. I missed it with naked eye and only spotted it with magnifying lens. I can see varroa easily on the board so this is much smaller. Either braula or tropilaelaps I think. 6 legs, 2 long antennae and 2 shorter horn things. Teardrop shape. It ran quite fast into a pool of olive oil and that was that. I will collect it tomorrow and maybe send to NBU.

 

[Beefriendly]

The picture is definitely 8 legs segmented with hooks at the end as in the picture by the OP. .

Your eyesight is better than mine...I can see no hooks. It's also far too small...see pin in original picture for scale.

 

[Hivemaker.]

There are several species of mite that live in hives along with bees, that one looks like a pollen mite.

 

[masterBK]

Its a harmless mite scavenging for food on the debris dropping through the mesh floor. I see them all the time on the Varroa inspection board. Up to 34 species of mite found in UK beehives all of them harmless to the bees apart from Varroa d and Acarapis w

 

[MrsSzrid]

I’ve sent my pic to Beebase so will let you know what they say.

Jacqui

 

[Millet]

I’ve sent my pic to Beebase so will let you know what they say.

Jacqui

Just listen to the two replies above your post those answers will be as good if not better than the beebase..

 

[MrsSzrid]

Thanks Millet. I had replied with the last post at the same time as the other post came through. Didn’t mean to disregard any opinions if that is what you thought.

 

[Millet]

Thanks Millet. I had replied with the last post at the same time as the other post came through. Didn’t mean to disregard any opinions if that is what you thought.

No no i know you did not disregard any opinions, i was just saying (meaning)them two and many others sure know there onions..