Two-spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae) (IMAGE)

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Two-spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae)

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Cryo-scanning electron microscopic image of a shock-frozen living adult female of the two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae, on a broad bean leaf (freeze-fracture); 375x magnified.

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Dagmar Voigt, Institute for Botany, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.

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