Re: Getting to view a house dust mite?

From: David Sewell (david_at_hereat.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: 12/15/04


Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:11:27 -0000


"Richard J Kinch" <kinch@truetex.com> wrote in message
news:Xns95C03D00DA4Asomeconundrum@216.196.97.131...
> 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"?

They look like what I have seen on the net, they are where dust is, also I
notice they seem to cluster around any greasy finger prints. I do have a
digital camera but no device to attach it to my microscope. (Lomo C11 -not
C15 as I posted earlier). The best I could do was a snap with an Intel QX3,
in the link below:

http://www.hereat.freeserve.co.uk/photo/mite.jpg

Regards,
David