They drop to the mites in the silver-grey cheese beneath, and from time to time masses and wedges of nearly two tons weight are hoisted upward and float through the air to the surface, like thistle-down.
Any one of numerous species of large parasitic mites which attach themselves to, and suck the blood of, cattle, dogs, and many other animals.
A genus of parasitic mites including the itch mites.
Also, other similar mites affecting the lower animals, as the horse and ox.
Any one of numerous small mites injurious to plants.
The readiness of the poor widow in the Temple could only give two mites, but two miteswere all her living; the readiness of the Macedonians was in the depths of poverty, but they gave themselves to the Lord.
The widow's mites are an illustrious example of sacrifice, and this word of the Apostle contains a moving appeal for generosity; yet the two together have been profaned times innumerable to cloak the meanest selfishness.
They are very active, and if they keep at it may get through some day; but meanwhile the cheese seems much the same as ever, apart from its own internal changes which the mites cannot control or affect.
Moslem and missionary activities in Chinese Asia remind one of cheese-mites gnawing away on opposite sides of a Double Gloucester.
Yesterday, I received a state visit from the Editor of the Furniture Record seeking advice on how to eradicate mites from upholstering!
To-day journeyed to--where I gave evidence as an expert in Economic Entomology at the County Court in a case concerning damage to furniture by mites for which I am paid AL8 8s.
The mites in our veins had altered us both considerably through the years.
The bug--we always spoke of it in the singular, even though we knew the original mites had spawned in our blood streams--could not act quickly enough to save our lives in the event of major damage to essential organs or the brain.
In bulk there are not more degrees From elephants tomites in cheese, Than what a curious eye may trace In creatures of the rhyming race.
A strong contact spray of lime sulphur when the trees are dormant destroys the youngmites while they are yet on the bud scales, which is practically the only time when they are vulnerable.
In October the mites abandon the leaves to hibernate in the bud scales again.
Scheme, much about the bigness of Mites Eggs; and at other times, multitudes of small Insects, shaped exactly like that in the third Figure marked with X.
A description of the Mites of Cheese: and an intimation of the variety of forms in other Mites, with a Conjecture at the reason.
Though on the other side, I must confess, that having kept divers of those Mites inclosed in a box for a good while, I did not find them very much augmented beyond their usual bigness.
How exquisite and how enviable must have been the feelings of this pious woman, when she cast her last two mites into the treasury!
She who could cast into the treasury the only two mites that she possessed, would have adorned a higher station.
Their world was perhaps a narrow one, but He Who reckoned two mites a greater offering than the total of the gifts of many rich casting in much, was unlikely to despise a fisherman or a publican who laid all his living upon the altar.
During the winter the mites lie in the shelter of the bud scales; as soon as the foliage begins to develop in the spring the over-wintering mites attack the leaves, each mite forming a blister, in which it produces a colony of young.
The life-history of mites presents some variability, and, though there are fundamentally four stages of development, additional stages have been developed by some species which tend to complicate the cycle.
Mites are of small size, some being microscopic, while others are just discernable by the unaided eye.
The offspring then migrate from the parent blister and form blisters for themselves, and this goes on until autumn, when the last generation of mitesmigrates for the winter to the shelter of the bud scales.
It is to be observed with regard to the Arachnida of the French school, that the class as laid down by them includes several animals that have no circulation, and breathe by tracheae, of which description are the mites (Acarus L.
As to the Octopods and Arachnidae, in the mites (Acarus L.
No evidence was seen that miteshad any ill effect on the health of their hosts.
The miteswere Eulaelaps stabularis (Koch) and Atricholaelaps glasgowi (Ewing).
In the winter these mites live in the ears of these small mammals, but in the summer they were found both in the ears and on the rump.
The fleas, lice, andmites were mounted on one inch by three inch glass slides; the ticks were preserved in 70 per cent alcohol.
The fleas, lice, and mites from the prairie vole were collected, counted, and identified.
The numbers of lice and mites were estimated, but selected voles were examined to obtain absolute numbers of these kinds of ectoparasites.
The most common arthropods in the nests were mites (parasitic, predaceous, and free-living) and springtails.
One species of sucking louse (Hoplopleura acanthopus) and two kinds of mites (Laelaps kochi and Atricholaelaps glasgowi) which occur on the prairie vole in Kansas, occur also on Microtus californicus in California and on M.
Two species of mites were found to occur on voles in New York, Kansas, and California.
Each time an animal was captured alive, it was weighed, specimens of fleas, lice and mites were preserved, and the external appearance of the reproductive organs was noted.
The occurrence of mites on small mammals from Lawrence, Kansas, is presented in table 7.
Six species ofmites (Ixodoidea excepted) were found on the prairie vole.
The frequency of some kinds of mites in the identified material suggests that they are more abundant than other kinds.
And then there was no woman in it to take care of us, and we were only little mites of babies--poor, crying, helpless morsels of humanity.
When they begin to have feathers on their legs the mites should be carefully picked off their heads and necks, for these banes often destroy them.
On patting their carrier or some passing ant, the mites are supplied with food, no service being rendered by them in return for the ants' care.
The same naturalist describes the association with Lasius of small mites (Antennophorus) which are carried about by the worker ants, one of which may have a mite beneath her mouth, and another on either side of her abdomen.
Not one in fifty goes on the stage; the mites are engaged only at certain seasons; and their harvest-time enables poor people to obtain many little comforts and necessaries.
We are happy who saw all the Terrys, and Marie the witty who charmed Charles Dickens, and all the pretty mites who did so delight us when Mme.
If you inquire--How are thesemites originally fixed by their pedicles?
As these mites are fixed to the crust as well as its inosculations, they must have some means of forcing their nutriment through its pores.
The enclosed letter is an appeal to Sister Swiggs, whose yearly miteshave gone far, very far, to aid us in the good but mighty work now to be done.
And may you never feel the want of these mites bestowed in the cause of the poor heathen.
And so in this way some few mites do actually get in; which, however, at the end of each year bring but a small sum.
As nevertheless what goes in is only the mites of poverty, it looks to him a great deal too little.
Fossicking round in the gravel, Correll happened on some tiny insect-like mites living amongst the moss or on the moist under side of slabs of stone.
He discovered parasitical mites all over them on the outside, and the flesh contained many worms.
Correll and I went up to where the ridges converged, selecting numerous specimens of rock and mineral and finding thousands of small red mites in the moist gravel.
Although at one time regarded as constituting a distinct species, described as Leptus autumnalis, harvest-bugs are now known to be the six-legged larval forms of several British species of mites of the genus Trombidium.
They are predaceous, feeding upon small insects, mitesand spiders.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mites" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
