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Kōrero: Spiders and other arachnids

Soil mites

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Soil mites

The term ‘mites’ is applied to several orders of tiny arachnids. They are the most numerous arthropods living in the soil, and in favourable places there may be hundreds of thousands in a square metre. These mites are feeding on a dead leaf.

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Soil Bugs – An Illustrated Guide to New Zealand Soil Invertebrates

by Alastair Robertson and Maria Minor

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Simon Pollard, Spiders and other arachnids – Other arachnids – spider relatives, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/12725/soil-mites (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Simon Pollard, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.