Here are some pics I took of the blood-sucking parasite,
Ornithonyssus sp. I have yet to specify the species, but common victims include rodents and fowl.
Ornithonyssus sp. mite, 100x magnification, 100um scale bar;
Dorsal view, stack of 14 exposures (
Left);
Ventral view, stack of 14 exposures (
Right) (Link high resolution image:
https://flic.kr/p/H548Xx):
- 2 Ornithonyssus sp (Lt, Dor, 14; Rt, Vent, 14) WEB.jpg (222.47 KiB) Viewed 2231 times
Ornithonyssus sp. mite, 400x magnification, 10um scale bar;
Dorsal view, stack of 20 exposures (
Left);
Ventral view, stack of 20 exposures (
Right) (Link high resolution image:
https://flic.kr/p/25CyqyC):
- 3 Ornithonyssus sp (Lt, Dor, 20; Rt, Vent, 20) WEB.jpg (131.09 KiB) Viewed 2231 times
Ornithonyssus sp. mite, 400x magnification; Image 10 from the 20-image stack above (i.e., the central image of the image stack) (Link high resolution image:
https://flic.kr/p/25mtp7B):
- 1 Ornithonyssus sp WEB.jpg (92.45 KiB) Viewed 2231 times
