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11-04-13, 03:38 AM
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Re: do you have quarantine enclosures?
Yay another invasive species! Can you post links to your info on snake mites being found in north America?
Also birds font carry snake mites so that is irrelevant.
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11-04-13, 11:24 AM
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Re: do you have quarantine enclosures?
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Pam = provent-a-mite
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Uh oh.... I just sprayed my snakes with PAM cooking spray 
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11-04-13, 02:24 PM
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Re: do you have quarantine enclosures?
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Originally Posted by KORBIN5895
Yay another invasive species! Can you post links to your info on snake mites being found in north America?
Also birds font carry snake mites so that is irrelevant.
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Chiggers
Chiggers are mites and chiggers bite reptiles, including snakes. Here's a link to a wild caught snake in Louisiana with mites. Mites between the scales of a water snake - BugGuide.Net
I can't find the journal article I read about the Ophionyssus natricis in North America; I don't have access to that part of JSTOR anymore. However, this does discuss the other snake mites found in wild snakes in Texas. Full text of "Maintenance of rattlesnakes in captivity" It's in the Mites, Chiggers, Ticks section of the Maintenance of Rattlesnakes.
It's important to know that while most mites are host-specific, not all of them are.
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11-04-13, 03:13 PM
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Re: do you have quarantine enclosures?
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Originally Posted by muffiewrites
Chiggers
Chiggers are mites and chiggers bite reptiles, including snakes. Here's a link to a wild caught snake in Louisiana with mites. Mites between the scales of a water snake - BugGuide.Net
I can't find the journal article I read about the Ophionyssus natricis in North America; I don't have access to that part of JSTOR anymore. However, this does discuss the other snake mites found in wild snakes in Texas. Full text of "Maintenance of rattlesnakes in captivity" It's in the Mites, Chiggers, Ticks section of the Maintenance of Rattlesnakes.
It's important to know that while most mites are host-specific, not all of them are.
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I cannot access the second link you posted, but the first link clearly states that those are larval chiggers, which ARE mites for all intents and purposes, but they ARE NOT the common snake mite seen in the pet trade. The chiggers are an oppourtunistic, non specific parasite. The snake mite ophionyssus is not endemic to north america.
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11-04-13, 03:18 PM
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Re: do you have quarantine enclosures?
a nice concise read regarding snake mites/life cycles (disregard the treatment information)
http://www.wildlifehealth.org.au/Por...09%20(1.0).pdf
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