Re: Getting to view a house dust mite?

From: Repeating Rifle (salmonegg_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 12/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 06:42:49 GMT

in article Xns95C03D00DA4Asomeconundrum@216.196.97.131, Richard J Kinch at
kinch@truetex.com wrote on 12/14/04 9:22 PM:

> David Sewell writes:
>
>> Aaron you seem to totally misunderstand me. I am totally overwhelmed by
>> house dust mites (here in the UK ).
>
> Can you post a photo[micrograph]?
>
> There are lots of mites. How do you know they are "dust mites"?

I have never seen a dust mite as far as I know. But I have seen mites on
blackberries. I can barely see them as specs without a lens. With a hand
lens, they are quit clear. I never thought of actually looking at them with
a compound microscope. I am now eating them with impunity.

How do you go about collecting dust mites so as not too much background
material?

Bill