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- The stylostome is a funnel- or channel-like structure formed in response to trombiculid mites. The formation is not caused by the mouthparts of the mites...
- do not actually "bite", but instead form a hole in the skin called a stylostome and chew up tiny parts of the inner skin, thus causing irritation and...
- do not actually "bite", but instead form a hole in the skin called a stylostome, and chew up tiny parts of the inner skin, thus causing severe irritation...
- detached. Feeding by the larvae involves secretion of a feeding tube, the stylostome, into the host's skin. This remains when the larva detaches and proteins...
- palp. The larvae bite a hole into the cuticula of the host and use a stylostome, which acts like a drinking straw, to drink body fluids dissolved tissues...
- the skin by piercing the skin with, respectively, their chelicerae or a stylostome feeding tube. Mites at other sites feed by using their chelicerae to s****e...
- of the host, the larval mite produces a stylostome, or small blind sac, within the host's body. Most stylostomes are able to resist ****ault by the host's...
- hair follicles or skin pores. In the process of feeding, they create a stylostome, which is a tube formed by solidified saliva. Their saliva can dissolve...