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Gato Moteado

(9,876 posts) Tue Dec 21, 2021, 02:26 PM Dec 2021

cool hummingbird shot....you can see the mites on her beak

here's a female rufous tailed hummer that made a nest outside my back door last year. if you zoom the photo you'll see at least one of the mites on her beak near her face.....i am also including a crop of the area and i circled the two mites:

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cool hummingbird shot....you can see the mites on her beak (Original Post) Gato Moteado Dec 2021 OP

Oh! a nesting hummer! AndyS Dec 2021 #1

Amazing! HAB911 Dec 2021 #2

Are they harmful to the hummingbird? Mites have destroyed untold number of otherwise healthy...... usaf-vet Dec 2021 #3

That's incredible PatSeg Dec 2021 #4

Whoa! StarryNite Dec 2021 #5

Nice catch! Heartstrings Dec 2021 #6

AndyS

(14,559 posts)

1. Oh! a nesting hummer!

Reply to Gato Moteado (Original post)

Tue Dec 21, 2021, 02:48 PM

Dec 2021

What a great opportunity to set up a blind.

Also the resolution of modern optics is amazing.

HAB911

(8,909 posts)

2. Amazing!

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Tue Dec 21, 2021, 03:33 PM

Dec 2021

usaf-vet

(6,193 posts)

3. Are they harmful to the hummingbird? Mites have destroyed untold number of otherwise healthy......

Reply to Gato Moteado (Original post)

Tue Dec 21, 2021, 05:19 PM

Dec 2021

.... honeybee (Apis mellifera) colonies.

PatSeg

(47,556 posts)

4. That's incredible

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Tue Dec 21, 2021, 05:21 PM

Dec 2021

StarryNite

(9,457 posts)

5. Whoa!

Reply to Gato Moteado (Original post)

Tue Dec 21, 2021, 06:31 PM

Dec 2021

Amazing photos.

Heartstrings

(7,349 posts)

6. Nice catch!

Reply to Gato Moteado (Original post)

Sat Dec 25, 2021, 11:38 PM

Dec 2021

I have to ask too…are the mites harmful?

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