Mites are specialists that occupy every conceivable niche, including the trachea of bees, the shafts of feathers, the anuses of turtles, the stink glands of bugs, the digestive systems of sea ...

Shimano soon came across Obae’s tweet. No hamabedani mites had ever been located on the Sea of Japan side of the Japanese archipelago during his investigations. That meant this one “must be an ...