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Minute animal belonging to the Arachnida,
related to spiders. Mites may be free-living
scavengers or predators. Some are parasitic,
such as the itch mite Sarcoptes scabiei,
which burrows in human skin, or the red mite
Dermanyssus gallinae, which sucks blood from
poultry and other birds.