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[[Image:Sarcoptes scabei.jpg|thumb|right|150px|''Sarcoptes scabei'' - Wikimedia Commons]]
[[Image:Sarcoptes scabei 2.jpg|thumb|right|150px|''Sarcoptes scabei'' - Wikimedia Commons]]
[[Image:Scabies human skin pruritis.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Scabies on human skin resulting in pruritis - Wikimedia Commons]]
[[Image:Puppy sarcoptic mange.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Puppy with sarcoptic mange - Wikimedia Commons]]
'''Recognition'''
*Small, round mite
*Short legs
**Project only a short distance from body margin
*Dorsal spines
**Arranged in rows
*Terminal anus
*Male is about 250μm in length and the female about 400-430μm in length
==Life cycle==
*'''3 week''' life cycle
*Female lays eggs in epidermis in an '''egg laying pocket'''
*Female feeds on liquid oozing from damaged tissue
*The eggs hatch in 1 week
*'''6 legged''' larvae released which crawl to skin surface
*The larvae then burrow back into the epidermis into '''moulting pockets'''
*Larvae moult to become '''8 legged''' nymphs
*Nymphs moult twice before becoming adults
*Adult males emerge and look for females to mate
Cause <big>'''[[Sarcoptic Mange]]</big>
[[Category:Parasites]][[Category:Mites]]
[[Image:Sarcoptes scabei 2.jpg|thumb|right|150px|''Sarcoptes scabei'' - Wikimedia Commons]]
[[Image:Scabies human skin pruritis.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Scabies on human skin resulting in pruritis - Wikimedia Commons]]
[[Image:Puppy sarcoptic mange.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Puppy with sarcoptic mange - Wikimedia Commons]]
'''Recognition'''
*Small, round mite
*Short legs
**Project only a short distance from body margin
*Dorsal spines
**Arranged in rows
*Terminal anus
*Male is about 250μm in length and the female about 400-430μm in length
==Life cycle==
*'''3 week''' life cycle
*Female lays eggs in epidermis in an '''egg laying pocket'''
*Female feeds on liquid oozing from damaged tissue
*The eggs hatch in 1 week
*'''6 legged''' larvae released which crawl to skin surface
*The larvae then burrow back into the epidermis into '''moulting pockets'''
*Larvae moult to become '''8 legged''' nymphs
*Nymphs moult twice before becoming adults
*Adult males emerge and look for females to mate
Cause <big>'''[[Sarcoptic Mange]]</big>
[[Category:Parasites]][[Category:Mites]]