Peacock_mite,_Tuckerella_sp.jpg


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Tuckerella sp.

English: The Peacock mite , a beautiful but important pest on citrus in the tropics , shown here on a tea stem. Magnified 260X (with a low-temp scanning electron microscope ). (LTSEM) Plate # d27487. Courtesy, Erbe, Pooley: USDA, ARS, EMU. "All of the micrographs on the web site are in the public domain and can be freely used." --Christopher Pooley. Reference: http://emu.arsusda.gov/typesof/default.html English Wikipedia, original upload 23 March 2005 by Brian0918
Français : Tuckerella sp., un acarien attaquant les agrumes. Image obtenue en microscopie électronique à balayage à basse température.
Date Taken on 22 March 2005
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Author Christopher Pooley, USDA-ARS
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Public domain This image is in the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from the Agricultural Research Service , the research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture .

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False-colour scanning elecron micrograph of peacock mite (tuckerella)

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