• After emerging from the egg membrane, the Acari larva seeks out an appropriate host and becomes an ectoparasite, which is passively transported while feeding on host fluids.
• When fully engorged, the larva transforms to the quiescent nymphochrysalis.
• Radical structural reorganization occurs during this stage; the deutonymph emerges which is sexually immature and exhibits incomplete sclerotization and chaetotaxy.
• The next stage entered is the imagochrysalis where it metamorphs into the mature adult.
• The adult emerges with soft, pliable, and colorless sclerites. Sclerotization of the body is completed shortly after emergence.

• Egg laying in spring, over wintering adults (Huges 1959 pg 5-20)
• Eggs are typically laid in masses in a gelatinous matrix and attached to lants, wood particles, or stones.
• Some species lay eggs individually in stems of aquatic plants, and other will oviposit in the tissues of sponges or mussels.

ACTIVITY:

• None available

• Swimming and crawling (Thorp, 1991 pg.540)
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