Meanings
plural harvest mites
- Any of various mites of family Trombiculidae that inhabit forests and grasslands and which, in their larval stage, attach to various animals including humans and feed on skin, often causing itching.
I wonder what I look like to the intrepid harvest mite, with his six red hungry legs, nosing through the crusted dirt of the Via Solis to find a soft pouch of blood at the base of my forefinger?
2021, A. K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches, Granta Books, page 181Synonyms: chigger, harvest bug, harvest louse, harvest tick, red bug, trombiculid mite, scrub-itch mite, berry bug
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAny of various mites of family Trombiculidae that inhabit forests and grasslands and which, in their larval stage, attach to various animals including humans and feed on skin, often causing itching.
More synonyms by meaning
nounlarval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Bulgarian кърлеж
- кърлеж (kărlež)harvest mite
Dutch oogstmijt
- oogstmijtharvest mite
Finnish samettipunkki
- samettipunkkiharvest mite
French aoûtat, aoutat
- aoûtatharvest mite
- aoutatharvest mite
German Grasmilbe, Herbstmilbe
- Grasmilbeharvest mite
- Herbstmilbeharvest mite
- Herbstgrasmilbeharvest mite
Hungarian bársonyatka
- bársonyatkaharvest mite
Japanese ツツガムシ
- ツツガムシ (tsutsugamushi)harvest mite
Polish lądzień
- lądzieńharvest mite
Romanian păducel
- păducelharvest mite
Spanish ácaro de la cosecha, ácaro rojo
- ácaro de la cosechaharvest mite
- ácaro rojoharvest mite
Cite this entry
harvest mite. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/harvest%20mite
“harvest mite.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/harvest%20mite. Accessed November 5, 2026.
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