harvest mite

English

Wikispecies

Adult harvest mite Trombicula autumnalis

Noun

harvest mite (plural harvest mites)

1. Any of various mites of the genus Trombicula that inhabit forests and grasslands and which, in their larval stage, attach to various animals including humans and feed on skin, often causing itching.
   • 2021, A. K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches, Granta Books, page 181:

     I wonder what I look like to the intrepid harvest mite, with his six red hungry legs, nosing through the crusted dirt of the Via Solis to find a soft pouch of blood at the base of my forefinger?

Synonyms

• (Trombicula): harvest bug, harvest louse, harvest tick, red bug, trombiculid mite, scrub-itch mite, berry bug
  • (in the larval stage) chigger

Translations

harvest mite

• Bulgarian: кърлеж (bg) m (kǎrlež)
• Dutch: oogstmijt (nl) f
• Finnish: samettipunkki
• French: aoûtat (fr), aoutat (fr) m
• German: Grasmilbe f, Herbstmilbe f, Herbstgrasmilbe (de) f
• Hungarian: bársonyatka
• Japanese: ツツガムシ (ja) (tsutsugamushi)
• Ottoman Turkish: قورداشن (kurdaşan)
• Polish: swędzik jesienny
• Romanian: păducel (ro) m
• Spanish: ácaro de la cosecha m, ácaro rojo m

Anagrams

• harvest time, harvesttime