2026-07-13 22:18 UTC
#MiteMonday: I chased this sidewalk mite around a bocce ball court in a park for ages because I thought it was one of the iridescent blue-green ones, only to find out it just had some green stuff on it. 😐
It looks kind of like lichen but I have no idea how lichen would even grow on a mite. It's probably some random paint or powder or algae-filled water that dried on it.
#Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Acariformes #Erythraeidae
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@nev@flipping.rocks 2026-07-13 22:29
Waves of Italian immigrants brought bocce (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bocce) to Toronto, and though its popularity has waned as Italians have increasingly moved to the suburbs and younger generations have assimilated, many public parks still have bocce courts.