Kim Taylor / Sexton beetle (Nicrophorus vespilloides) taking off showing elytra folded upwards along back and phoretic mites gathered on thorax to where they migrate whenever the beetle prepares for flight, digit...

Kim Taylor / Tropical beetle {Lamellicornia} with load of phoretic mites, Trinidad, West Indies.

Kim Taylor / Dor beetle {Geotrupes vernalis} with phoretic mites, UK.

Nick Upton / Chalkhill blue butterflies (Polyommatus coridon), mating on Red clover flower (Trifolium pratense) with phoretic Chalcidoid wasp (Eulophidae; Tetrastichinae) a parasitoid of butterfly eggs, riding on...

Nick Upton / Chalkhill blue butterflies (Polyommatus coridon), mating on Red clover flower (Trifolium pratense) with phoretic Chalcidoid wasp (Eulophidae; Tetrastichinae) a parasitoid of butterfly eggs, riding on...

Piotr Naskrecki / Dung Beetle (Scarabaeidae) with phoretic mites, Barbilla National Park, Costa Rica.

Piotr Naskrecki / Assassin Bug (Reduviidae) with phoretic pseudoscorpions on its back, Rio Kapatchez, Guinea

PREMAPHOTOS / White tailed bumble bee (Bombus lucorum) queen infested with phoretic deutonymphs of the mite {Parasitellus fucorum} UK

Piotr Naskrecki / Dung Beetle (Scarabaeidae) infested with Phoretic Mites, Botswana

Piotr Naskrecki / Phoretic Mite (Histiogaster arborsignis) cluster on Longhorn Beetle (Chlorida festiva), Costa Rica

Kim Taylor / Leaf-cutting bee {Megachile sp) pupal case of drone with numerous phoretic mites UK.

Jane Burton / Sexton / Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus vespilloides) with phoretic mites, UK.