cheese mite

noun

a white soft-bodied free-living mite, Tyrophagus (or Tyroglyphus) longior, sometimes found in decaying cheese

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How to use cheese mite in a sentence

Another common genus is Tyroglyphus, which includes the common cheese mite, T. siro.
Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects | C. V. Riley
Of these the most commonly met with is Tyroglyphus siro, the cheese-mite.
Handbook of Medical Entomology | William Albert Riley
The cheese-mite can hardly be seen without the aid of the microscope.
Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I | Arnold Cooley

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