What do rabbit ear mites look like?
– Microscope pictures of rabbit ear mites. All mites (and ticks) belong the Order: Acarina, one of the many orders of parasitic and non-parasitic organisms that are grouped under the general Class: Arachnida (the arachnids). This class includes the spiders, ticks and scorpions. As such, mites generally have tiny (often microscopic) bodies that do not appear to be all that well segmented into the discrete head, thorax and abdomen sections commonly seen in insects (unlike insects, mites tend to have a non-segmented, solid body with legs in the middle and a head stuck on one end). Adult and tritonymph mite stages have eight legs (four pairs), whereas larval and protonymph stages have six legs (three pairs). There are five Suborders of mites in Order Acarina, four of which are of veterinary significance. I don’t need to go into detail about the five parasitic mite suborders in this section, suffice to say that every species of mite has been grouped into one of the four suborders on the bas
