![Smithsonian Insider – These mites should make birds quiver right down to their quills | Smithsonian Insider Smithsonian Insider – These mites should make birds quiver right down to their quills | Smithsonian Insider](https://insider.si.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/quill_mite.jpg)
Smithsonian Insider – These mites should make birds quiver right down to their quills | Smithsonian Insider
Kaylee Byers, PhD on Twitter: "There are > 2500 #feather #mite species making them the most diverse + abundant bird ectosymbionts. They are also highly host-specific, meaning that 1 feather mite species
![Feather mites (Acari: Astigmata) of the Zoobotanical State Park in Teresina, Brazil | Lima Alves Moro, Maria Marta | Acarologia Feather mites (Acari: Astigmata) of the Zoobotanical State Park in Teresina, Brazil | Lima Alves Moro, Maria Marta | Acarologia](https://www1.montpellier.inra.fr/CBGP/acarologia/pdf/volume59/4345/html/Figure1.png)
Feather mites (Acari: Astigmata) of the Zoobotanical State Park in Teresina, Brazil | Lima Alves Moro, Maria Marta | Acarologia
![Dolichodectes hispanicus feather mites on the wing flight feathers of a... | Download Scientific Diagram Dolichodectes hispanicus feather mites on the wing flight feathers of a... | Download Scientific Diagram](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284715417/figure/fig1/AS:300612215427101@1448682945234/Dolichodectes-hispanicus-feather-mites-on-the-wing-flight-feathers-of-a-Melodious-warbler.png)
Dolichodectes hispanicus feather mites on the wing flight feathers of a... | Download Scientific Diagram
![Smithsonian Insider – These mites should make birds quiver right down to their quills | Smithsonian Insider Smithsonian Insider – These mites should make birds quiver right down to their quills | Smithsonian Insider](https://insider.si.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/22.jpg)
Smithsonian Insider – These mites should make birds quiver right down to their quills | Smithsonian Insider
![Smithsonian Insider – These mites should make birds quiver right down to their quills | Smithsonian Insider Smithsonian Insider – These mites should make birds quiver right down to their quills | Smithsonian Insider](https://insider.si.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/31.jpg)
Smithsonian Insider – These mites should make birds quiver right down to their quills | Smithsonian Insider
![Feather mites (Acari: Astigmata) of the Zoobotanical State Park in Teresina, Brazil | Lima Alves Moro, Maria Marta | Acarologia Feather mites (Acari: Astigmata) of the Zoobotanical State Park in Teresina, Brazil | Lima Alves Moro, Maria Marta | Acarologia](https://www1.montpellier.inra.fr/CBGP/acarologia/pdf/volume59/4345/html/Figure3.png)
Feather mites (Acari: Astigmata) of the Zoobotanical State Park in Teresina, Brazil | Lima Alves Moro, Maria Marta | Acarologia
![Feather mite abundance varies but symbiotic nature of mite‐host relationship does not differ between two ecologically dissimilar warblers - Matthews - 2018 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library Feather mite abundance varies but symbiotic nature of mite‐host relationship does not differ between two ecologically dissimilar warblers - Matthews - 2018 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/223b69a0-db41-47d5-851c-88bcbb7359e9/ece33738-fig-0002-m.jpg)