Tags: Arachnid.
Bernardo Aparicio first discovered this species along with his companion Oscar Moya.Acarapis woodi (honey bee tracheal mite) is a mite that is an internal parasite of honey bees originally described from the Isle of Wight. Tracheal mites are related to spiders and have eight legs. Acarapis woodi live and reproduce in the tracheae of the bees. The female mite attaches 5–7 eggs to the tracheal walls where the larvae hatch and develop in 11–15 days to adult mites.
